Mastodawn

So, the sashiko stitchwork for this quilt is done.

But.

HELP!

Normally, you would bind your front to your backing.

But, as you can see, I have two fronts.

I'm looking for ideas on how to edge it, adding/losing as little as possible.

Thoughts, anyone?

White stitches show the valley folds, blue the mountain folds (and vice versa on reverse).

I dyed the blue thread with cyanotype!

After several frustrating attempts, I got the layers pinned, and then tacked together with some simple temporary loop stitches.

And... I could finally test my idea.

Would it fold into a yakko-san?

And would folding it either way give the result I wanted?

Happily, yes!

Fold one way - blue yakko with a white back.

Fold the other - white yakko with a blue back.

Back when I get onto the #sashiko stitchwork...

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The two exposed yakko-sans are the top and bottom of my quilt.

Unlike a usual quilt, the backing is not plain, and is meant to be seen.

Putting the 'front', cotton batting and 'back' together wasn't easy!

The orientation (head end of the yakko-san) and overlap of each intersection needs to match, so that either side can be the 'front' side.

See what I had to work with (the two layers) below...

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So first I coated 2 squares of linen with cyanotype chemicals. About 2 litres of chemicals!

They were 1.5 metres square, but shrank unequally after being wet... so I had to recut them at about 1.45 m.

Then each was folded into a Yakko-san.

One was exposed face-up.

The other face down.

After exposure the pieces of fabric looked like this...

And then they were washed, very well.

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