I sewed all weekend. Every time I took a break to do something else, I'd find myself tinkering with a quilt within an hour or two. How nice to have the time to work on them.
I love the baby Homebase quilt. I'm already dreaming of ways to quilt it. Binding fabric is cut and ready. I'm currently designing a scrappy backing. The plan had been to use the brights that I previously cut, but there wasn't enough variety. I ended up using only about a third of those triangles, then dug through my stash for other fabrics to go with them.
I've had this vintage blue and green fabric with little hearts and birds on it for a while. The print was wonderfully straight along the edge, but when I went to cut it, it turned out to be quite cockeyed. The fabric is folded square, but you can see by the ruler it dips quite a bit from left to right (although it was straight on the side folded underneath). So I have two straight pieces, two slightly askew piece and the long side piece looks good. How odd that it twisted like that.
I'm waffling between an all-over quilting pattern or do something specific to the diamonds. I'm leaning towards filling in the diamonds. It's going to be a lot of stitching (like this quilt isn't heavy enough already), but I'm thinking of all the freemotion practice that will be. Whee! As soon as I finish piecing the Homebase back and the binding, I can focus on quilting. I can't wait.
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Nice use of neutrals among the brights! Piecing backs sometimes takes as long as the tops themselves! But it does add interest!
ReplyDeleteYour Homebase quilt top is a triumph. I can't wait to see what quilting design you decide upon. The backing for zig zag quilt is fabulous This quilt will look great both sides.
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