battle scars of honour

[incandescens]

Have session arranged to show a coworker how to knit at lunch tomorrow, so that she can knit a scarf for her daughter. I've only tried teaching someone to knit once before: fingers crossed that she doesn't find it too awkward.

Spent part of the evening pinning the proto-Frozen quilt together, for quilting over the weekend. Not too painful an experience, as it's a fairly small quilt. (Pinning one that's approximately two metres square gives you new standards on how annoying pinning quilts can be.) Though I'm not saying it's entirely without pain - when you're handling a lot of safety pins, the odds approach certainty that you're going to end up with a few marks on your finger.

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[liedra.livejournal.com]

How do you pin your large quilts together? I've only done one large one and haven't found a way that's easy yet. It's especially annoying when I don't have quite enough space so have to fold over or something as I go :(

[incandescens]

I'm short on space, so what I do is drape the three layers over the ironing board and pin it on there. I pin the section that's currently supported by the ironing board, then move it along a little and pin the next bit. It's not perfect, but as long as I'm careful to smooth it out and to pin frequently and without leaving big spaces, it does a reasonable job.

One thing I do have to be careful of is not shifting an entire pinned area to hang off the edge and then pinning the next bit, which might result in the hang of the drape pulling the layers of fabric out of synchronisation with each other. I therefore just move it along a bit, so that a pinned part of the fabric is still on the ironing board, before doing the next bit. (It takes forever, but it's safer.)

I hope that makes sense.

[liedra.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's actually quite helpful. I was doing a sort of foldy/scrunchy thing on the floor, which was not very easy. I'll try your method out next time!

[incandescens]

I look forward to hearing how it works!