Mystery quilt progress.

The progress on part seven of Bonnie Hunter's mystery is slow this week. The reason is the sewing room is slowly taking on a tidy look and a more organized space. It felt overwhelming at the start, have incorporated a chunk of time just for cutting parts of projects, after sorting the washed and ironed fabrics into project boxes.

Have cut some more squares from fabrics which I bought while we were in South Africa last. Needed more variety and colour. This quilt will be infused with happy and bright colours.

A long arm quilter always ask us to iron the top, to make it easier to quilt the top and also to make a quilt more flat and even. All round the back can effect the front, in a manner of speaking.

Each step is important. Trimming the blocks to the correct size, after making these hour glass blocks. Spinning the seams make these centers lie flat. Adding them to the connecting blocks and then the sashings. Taking extra care and a little bit more time and the backs of said block becomes a thing of beauty.

As we want to look after our sewing machines, our workhorses when creating the tops. It only makes sense to do the same when we come to quilt them, either by machine or hand. It is an act of kindness, to both!