This was slow going but at last I have a finish in plenty of time to give as a Christmas gift for my oldest son. You can read about this quilt
here. We have no sun which makes it hard to get good pictures. No snow either!
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No snow yet! But also no sun. |
The first border I added was simply HST's with a strip of background fabric added to each end to make the border fit. Then a strip of background fabric and a final strip of the same fabric as the sashing and inner border. It finished up at 70'' but after tossing it in the washer and dryer it finishes at 67 1/2''s square. I love a quilt fresh out of the dryer showing all the texture of the quilting.
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?