 A friend and neighbor has asked for yet another quilt, this time for a baby expected soon. Perhaps this will do. Print fabric is for the backing. Mar 23: Cut out all the pieces of the quilt top. Mar 24: Made 9 patch blocks, sashing & got the flower blocks 1/2 way together. Mar 25: Things slowed down as I started assembling the blocks & tried to keep things fairly on point. The rows are together such as they are. I admit fudging was a bit of a factor. Mar 26: Fudging never works. The sashing did not fit the rows. Took apart most of the rows & sashing, trimmed as needed & reassembled. Thus I am exactly where I was at end of day yesterday. This was supposed to be a one or at most 2 day little project!! HA! I must say it is very good for a longarmer to stop and piece now and then to appreciate her customers all the more! Mar 27: I have pinned where I need to re-seam the sashing. Hopefully I can then connect the rows with more success than I had yesterday morning. Hope it doesn't take all day again. I so want to see borders on this baby (quilt). YES! I am ready to get back to longarming but I don't dare quit now less I never get motivated to finish this before that baby is born and too old to use it! HA! Got it together at last! And 2 out of three borders now done. With Joan's affirmation (comment), I am stopping right here...after stitching around the edges to hold everything in place. Mar 28: Pieced the backing and prepared the binding. Once I choose an IQ Pattern, it is ready to quilt. Mar 29: My friend/customer loves the quilt!. Like most men, he does not wish to pick an IQ pattern but likes the idea of using bees. Apr 02: After much deliberation, I have decided to go with my first choice--a Bee Border by Deb Geissler. It is just too cute to use anything else. I learned Karen is interested in the whole longarming process so I invited her up to do this quilt with me. Perhaps Friday. Apr 06: Karen & I decided to postpone until next Wednesday, April 11. Apr 11: Quilting...ran out of steam...had to abandon my baby until morning. Apr 12: Quilted. Apr 24: Binding is attached. Only hand work left to do. May 10: Binding is finished.
12 Comments
Joan
3/24/2012 09:26:44 pm
Sweet! You've been busy!
Linda
3/25/2012 12:03:39 am
...and I needed a brief break from all the longarming. These are such innocent happy colors! Piecing reminds me of just how tricky it can be.
joan
3/27/2012 09:02:54 am
OK Way to Go!
Linda Lovett
3/27/2012 10:42:17 am
What do you think? Stop at the 2nd border and bind in white OR add the third green border and bind in green?
joan
3/27/2012 11:19:35 am
Stop at 2nd and bind in white!
Dorothy Wonder
3/31/2012 05:35:13 am
Linda,
Linda Lovett
3/31/2012 05:38:04 am
Thank you! It was fun & my friend/customer says YES to it!
Karen Gulliford
4/1/2012 03:16:16 am
I love the pinwheel quilt pattern and have also made several baby quilts with that pattern. The colors are so beautiful. Great job!!
Linda Lovett
4/1/2012 03:25:36 am
Actually those are supposed to be flower petals more than pinwheels. Pinwheels would have been easier. These required special rulers to make the triangles and smaller side triangles. Fortunately I already had the rulers to make stars. Thank you! This is my second baby quilt. The first prompted to get some copy cat fabric from Joan and use a Noah's Ark IQ pattern.
Karen Gulliford
4/12/2012 12:42:56 am
I just wanted to say thanks again for an enjoyable afternoon learning more about longarm quilting. I think I would like to check out some machines and do some comparisons. It is probably not in the near future but maybe it is something I could do when I retire from the school system. I will be checking your blog to see all the new quilts you are working on.
Linda Lovett
4/12/2012 12:43:47 am
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