(Today's sleet and freezing rain has reconfigured the events of the day... which means a Free Day with No Specific Plans! Hurrah!)
This photo shows the seven blocks we had after leaving our last, and final, quilt class. It's looking pretty good, isn't it? Each finished block is 12" square. There are enough blocks to sew one strip of seven blocks together.
To make the finished quilt, we will be sewing six strips, of seven blocks each, together and adding three borders, around each of the four sides, of different fabrics and widths prior to making the "sandwich" of the sewn quilt top, batting (inside layer), and backing (the underside of the quilt). Then it will be hand quilted by Lori and me and perhaps a few other quilting friends. The final step is to add the binding.Okay! Here are our 8 (eight!) quilt blocks. What do you think, now? I arranged them this way to be able to better appreciate the over all design of the finished quilt. Be watching for a few variances.
The overall design will remain the same, but details will vary because we are using coordinating fabric scraps that remind us of Christmas. At this point, the scraps we've used have created 8 blocks. We will soon be incorporating those coordinating fabrics into other blocks. It should be fun!
Well... maybe we could tell Lori, after all.
6 comments:
How fun to be able to take a quilting class, that is something that has been on my list of things to do. Beautiful!
Yep! It's like gardening in the Winter! :-)
I see what you have done, Shady! And, it looks beautiful! I can hardly wait until we have it on the quilt frame and are able to sink our needles in to make our first quilting stiches.
:-) That's the spirit!
How fun! I have visited shady gardener's gardening blog before, but never this one until the "pelargonium quilt" caught my eye. I wonder if I can actually manage to make something like this someday...
Blackswamp girl,
Of COURSE you could! If I can do it, you can, too! Thanks for visiting over here. :-)
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