Yes, it's Halloween - just haven't had time to post. Remember that quilt l was quilting? Well here it is done. Nothing fancy, but a finish.
I was pleasantly surprised that I had no wrinkles form on the back. The back was turn to the front to make the binding. This St. Anne's baby quilt was made from donated fabric by one of our members. My job was to quilt it.
What have you been up to? Doesn't have to be quilting....
What with caregiving, I don't have much time for quilting, but I do try to get 15 minutes in now and then. I've been working on a St Anne's baby quilt that a member turned in for a bit of quilting. Since these are well used we don't do a lot of quilting on them. When the blocks are large, they need something. This quilt has blocks that measure around 13"- 13.5 " square (rectangles?). So I just wanted something that would keep the three layers together. This was my first time quilting a quilt after it was bound. Here's how it went.
1. Using wide masking tape (almost 2"), I cut pieces to put along the inside edges of the block. Using those as my guide I cut some more pieces of tape and put them along the inside edges of the first round.
2. Using my walking foot I stitched around the inner masking tape edges. Then I removed the inner tape (last on, first off) and began stitching along the inner edge of the first round of masking tape.
3. With that stitching done, peeled off the tape and my block was quilted. I used the same tape strips for all five squares. The whole quilt is a large nine-patch. Once I've meandered the other four blocks I'll show it to you.
Just need to wash, block and clip the threads in the back and this will be ready for gifting. This is a Hoffman digital panel of their Call of the Wild series to which I added a border. I saw the quilt border online but now can't find it to give credit. Sorry!
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