Rainy day sewing........
I loaded this quilt on the longarm on Tuesday but I didn't change the needle until yesterday morning. I quilted it shortly after lunch. I didn't even have this one on my 'to quilt' list. A friend pieced the top and left it with me along with her flannel scraps when she moved away. I had it tucked into the garment bag with other small projects and when I spied it I thought it would be a great 3rd finish for this month.
I pieced the batting using the 3 step zig zag to hold the butted edges together. A plain zigzag seems to make a ridge that is too compressed and sometimes shows on a finished quilt.
A medium size meander seemed just right for this quilt.
I sewed the binding on later in the afternoon.
Since the front has pink and lavender and flowers I decided pink was appropriate for the back and binding.
I ended up with the elephants panel in the crazy pieced African fabric quilt top. The quilt top is 40" square. I could have spent another month on this trying different fabrics to frame the panel but decided I have spent enough time on it. I could have used any one of the panels but this one just fit the spot best. I also could have trimmed down the blocks and then I wouldn't have needed a border around the panel but I just couldn't do that.
It rained almost all day yesterday but I took this photo a couple days ago. The tiny blue flowers on the Brunnera are such an intense color but the camera just doesn't pick that up.
8 comments:
Nice little TAW quilt and those elephants are happy you chose them.
Any of your great panels would have looked fabulous
Three cheers for a third finish for April!! The Elephants are ready. Are you going to sneak in a fourth?!?!
Hey Wanda. Love your TAW. And elephants are my favourite. I haven't been able to leave a comment on your blog for a long time because I lost my blog. But I have been inspired by your posts daily. Yesterday I started a new blog. Hope to change my silence in the days to come. Ignore the return email address from Google. It should be henriettegruener@gmail.com (All my accounts were compromised last year while I was hospitalized.)
Lovely Trip piece--nice quilting on this one...
I love the elephants panel with those CQ blocks...they just seem to look great there...
~~ ~ ~ wving under the bumbershoot today Julierose
I remember that little quilt top! Maybe now it will find a good home!
Mary G.
I have my friend's granddaughter's baby quilt loaded and over half done. Happy with the progress. I will wait to finish until she comes over as she wants to see the process. There are 3 baby quilts that need to be finished at the end of the May for Sarah's Hands2Help challenge.
That's is great you got another finish for the month! It is a cute quilt. We have had a lot of rain too. We need some sunshine!
This is very timely - I've been thinking about how one could best piece batting to use up some of my bigger scraps 0 butting them together and perhaps hand sewing in a zig zag might work!
ceci
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