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| No snow yet! But also no sun. |
I did try out some ruler work with the ruler foot toe, you can read more about the foot here. Amy from Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures has a Craftsy class which I have already taken,this is an affiliate link. I only have one ruler but I know I will be buying more soon.
It did take a bit to get used to moving the ruler with the fabric and I have, as my one granddaughter said a couple 'hills' where the I didn't move everything together as a unit. But overall I was impressed hills and all. As you can tell it doesn't take much to get me excited.
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| ruler work complete with 'hills' |
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| harder to see the ruler work in this one mainly the background. |
On top of that I have hardly any scraps from this project I made a scrappy binding, by sewing 1 1/2'' strips of all the red fabrics, together then cutting them at a 45 degree angle at 2 1/4'' for my binding width, then I sewed the cut strips together to make over 320'' of binding. I like the effect of the scrappy binding.
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| scrappy binding |
By the way I fixed the block with the corners going the wrong way read about that here. I appliqued a new piece over each corner and quilted them.
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| all fixed |
The colours in the quilt would have shown up better if Mr. Sun would have made an appearance.
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| hanging in a tree |
I was going to make a table runner and a couple other things I had in mind for Christmas, maybe next year. I don't have a single thing wrapped and Christmas is next week....
Are you ready for Christmas?
7 comments :
Cindy, the quilt turned out beautiful! Your son is going to love it. The appliqued HST's turned out great. I will have to remember that trick. The ruler work looks great too. Did you enjoy working with the ruler foot and rulers? I have a few rulers and have tried using them with my hopping foot, but have not broke down and purchased a ruler foot yet.
What a great finish, and I think appliqueing HSTs over the top was a great solution. I don't know that I'm ready for Christmas, but I have a feeling it will march right on by whether I am or not!
Cindy, it is a wonderful quilt! If your guild liked it half as much as I do, then it must have been a hit. Love the texture your quilting added. And you can't even tell the one block had an oops - applique' did the trick!
Nifty way to fix that flipped piecing. (Can you sleep now? : )I think someone will love this very much!
The best to you,
Julie
It's beautiful, your son will love it. Honestly, I would have fixed it, too. It looks great!
Of course you know I'm going to say how much I love the shot of your quilt in the tree!! Another crazy lady with a quilt and a (phone? camera?) You are pretty amazing to have fixed those 2 corners so very very well and then quilted them...I can just imagine in 100 years from now when someone studies it, finds it's fraying, and finds the other layer underneath!! I would probably have fixed it too, even though I do think leaving it and being slightly Amish would have been a-okay too! I love the colours, overcast skies and all. And that texture! Your ruler work is amazing, must watch Amy do this; I cannot wrap my brain around it. And well, I made another batch of baking tonight, so that's 2 things. I think I am done though, but nothing is wrapped, and the tree is still not decorated!
Beautiful quilt!
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