After making most of my applique pieces over the past two weeks, I've started arranging and sewing them down to the quilt. It's fun to see everything start coming together, but the grapes still remain my biggest challenge. After much experimenting, I've been using the good old freezer paper method to make them all. I wasn't sure if the freezer paper would work for circles so small, but it does. They're not perfect circles, but neither are grapes, so I'm cool with it!
I've used my sewing machine to attach all the other applique pieces, but I think it might be too cumbersome to maneuver and sew around all these small circles, so I think I'll try sewing them by hand and see how that goes.
In other news, I wove another rag rug using my new weaving skills! I used an old duvet cover (the green and white), a friends old shirt (the navy)...and get this! A disastrous quilt top I've been hanging unto because it seemed like a waste to throw it out (the purple/royal blue strips). Turns out you can rip up anything and weave it into a rug! There's something very comforting about that, and I also feel virtuous for not letting it all go to waste.
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