Improv Hourglass Quilted
from Fret Not Yourself
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually,
and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
~Charles Bukowski
Quilting
Inner borders benefit from SID (stitch-in-the-ditch) to keep them straight and that's what I did first here. But what to do next? The improvisationally cut hourglasses don't lend themselves to diagonal stitching although straight lines could run vertically. That's one of my default quilting designs.
Then I recalled the quilting design on kawandis. It's a simple squared-off spiral from the outside in. And usually hand quilted. Starting at the outside meant ...
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