Yay! Despite not having an opportunity to work on my quilt top last week, I’ve managed to finish it up this week. I’ll load it on the longarm tomorrow (hopefully) and get started with the quilting.
At 83″ X 97″, this baby will easily fit a queen bed.
I’m excited to get going on this one. I’ve decided to quilt using feathers all over the quilt. It’s fun and feminine, but this quilt seems to want both, and I love feathers. They are fast but the opportunity to be creative comes with every feather. Well, it does for me, because I can’t recreate a feather 1,000 times. So, I don’t try to recreate any. I love the ability to let those babies float across the quilt.
Scrambles, strips, skinnies, and floating dots
I’ve already decided I want the feathers to be organic, but I also want to add some funky flowers and scrolls and whatever else I can come up with.
HSTs, QSTs, Greek keys, and +s and Xs
My thinking right now is to ignore the blocks and rows. I’m unsure how that will work, but I suppose we’ll find out. If worse comes to worse (and it very well could) I’ll have to rip out lots of quilting, but I decided a while back that I don’t hate ripping so much. I got some new seam rippers that cut like razors, so the work goes especially fast. I highly recommend that you do the same. Life is much better with a good seam ripper!
Box in a box, the leftover/orphan blocks
Strangely, I had nine rows. I’m not sure how. Anyway, I felt that the top needed to be longer, so I added a tenth row of orphan blocks. Either I had too many (Why so many Greek keys?) or made blocks that never made it into the instructions, such as the flying geese. I gathered them all up and made this last row. I’m quite happy with it. Firstly, the quilt is now almost 100 inches long and, secondly, there are almost zero left-over blocks to put back into the scrap baskets. Win-win!
Hanging upside-down on the design wall but it may look better this way!
Where are you with your BoM? Leave a note in the comments or post pics on the Facebook group. And finally, here are all the blocks in order in case you missed one. Enjoy!
