Amazingly, it didn't take me long to put this together. I thought the triangles would mean trouble, but they were pretty easy to cut. Over the course of the weekend, I ended up with a completed quilt top.
Thursday
Sweetwater's Zig Zag Quilt
Amazingly, it didn't take me long to put this together. I thought the triangles would mean trouble, but they were pretty easy to cut. Over the course of the weekend, I ended up with a completed quilt top.
Pick-It Fences Backing
I decided to cut 8 x 8-inch blocks from the leftovers and let them sit until I figured out what to do next. Since the quilt top has lots and lots of white in it, I really wanted a lot of color in the quilt back. I incorporated white strips in-between the squares until I ended up with 5 rows of 7 squares. That used up most of the bigger chunks of fabrics. I still had a ways to go to have a piece big enough to back the quilt. I cut strips from the rest of the prints the same width as the white strips for a consistent look. Since the strips were all different lengths, I sewed white on each end so that the print was exactly in the center of the row. I ended up with 10 rows so I sewed 5 on each end of the patched piece. So now I have a quilt back! I cannot wait to quilt it and sew the binding on.
Monday
Coins & Quilts - A new local quilt shop
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The shop is on Highway 100 in Greenfield, which is very busy and currently under construction making it more difficult to get to. (I hate driving on a good day.) When I got inside I was greeted by the friendliest couple ever. The shop is called Coins & Quilts because the husband is a qualified numismatic (coin appraiser for us who aren't in the business) and the wife is a long-arm quilter. Thus a marriage of hobbies was born. The shop sells a wide variety of high-quality fabrics, patterns, notions and of course, quilting services. The shop wasn't very cute or fancy, but it was new and I am sure in time, it will get prettier as more quilt samples get added to the bare walls.
As a novice to the use of a longarmer, I was treated with patience and respect as I learned the process that my quilt top and backing was going to go through to get the end result. After spending lots and lots of time choosing a quilt design and thread colors, the estimate for the work was written up. Surprisingly, it was very reasonable to me. So I left my Synchronized Squares quilt and backing in her care and look forward to seeing the results in a few weeks.
Saturday
Sampler Quilt Along Blocks 1 - 4
Thursday
Sampler Quilt Along
Michelle over at Quilting Gallery is doing a beginner's quilt along where you make a sampler. Each week a square is revealed so it's a mystery as to what will come next. I stumbled on it during week 4 of the quilt along and even though I think I am slightly past the beginner stage, I really like the idea of making a sampler. I could use up my black, white and gray collection and put the finished quilt on my sewing room wall or use it on my day bed. Make sense to have a sampler hanging around a sewing room, I think. So I gathered up my stack of blacks and whites and started making the squares. This is going to be fun.
Sampler Quilt Along, a photo by SunshineSews on Flickr.
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