I finally managed to finish the baby quilt top. I was first just going to have all the border pieces matching, but it was too hard trying to get those stripes to line up on both sides. So I though I'd miter the corners. After cutting off the vertical pieces for my first attempt, the fabric was now not wide enough to have a long enough piece to miter. I learned that you have to double the width measurement and add an additional 5" to the piece cut to have enough for a miter. In my case it would be 31.5"+3+3+5 or 42.5 inches and I only had 35". So I did cornerstones to solve my border dilemma.
I now find myself with 4 baby quilt tops that need to be sandwiched and quilted. How did that happen? I must confess I'd rather put a top together than do any of the other steps in making a quilt. Good thing I have St. Anne's to help me get some of these done.
Speaking of St. Anne's, we're raffling a quilt under the auspices of our parish (they're 501(c)(3) hoping to raise some monies for our associate pastor from Uganda. The village where his mother lives is desperate for a nearby source of potable water. They want to build some wells. Here's the quilt we're raffling:
It's a vintage top a neighbor gave me. We had it quilted. This photo doesn't do it justice. The fabrics are all from the 30s-50s. Here's a close-up:
The Dresden Plates are hand pieced and hand stitched using the buttonhole stitch to the squares. The sashing is sateen ( I think). It's a queen size quilt. As you can see from this close-up photo the quilt squares are white not the yellow in the nighttime photo. Drawing winner March 8th.
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