Saturday was National Quilt Day so I got out 2 projects that I started back in 2011 and 2012. On Saturday I got Orca Bay all assembled. On Sunday I got Roll Roll Cotton Bowl all assembled. On Monday I sandwiched RRCB and started quilting it.
I had Orca Bay blocks sewn together and all the pieces made (previously) so I had to sew the border pieces together and sew the borders to the quilt top. Sounds easy enough. LOL.
Roll Roll Cotton bowl x-blocks were made and the string blocks were made except for sewing them into squares. I had lost the pattern so I didn't have enough blocks for the entire quilt. I used what I had and made this smaller quilt and I like the size of it. I used all the extra red & white hst's that I made previously and sewed them around the quilt for a border. Like I said, no pattern meant no final border pattern. I like this look and when I get done quilting it I will use that same shade of red for binding. No fancy quilting designs. Just straight lines to hold it all securely together. Orca Bay is too large for me to struggle with on my machine so I will have a friend quilt it on her frame and long arm machine.
Beautiful finishes!
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DeleteThese are both gorgeous. I'm glad you brought them out of the queue. The good news is that nobody is going to know what was "supposed" to be the border, and your improvisation is fantastic. I too brought a project out from a long way back, and put together the blocks I could find (or at least the ones I actually liked of them) into something less gigantic. PS In RRCB, the second row, second block over has a turned piece toward the center. It's fine, but in case you want to catch that BEFORE quilting. I'm forever not seeing my off-rotations until I see them in a photo. It makes sense to do a simple quilting design on the other since there is so much in the piecing that you'd never see it.
ReplyDeleteToo late. RRCB is already quilted and I didn't see that mistake that actually sticks out like a sore thumb. But I'm ok with it. There is also a mistake in Orca Bay, too. It hasn't been quilted yet but I dont want to tackle unstitching that small piecing. I would probably distort it. (good excuse, lol) My method is whatever is the easy way to do something. I'm a scrapaholic and I make quilts for the fun of it. I think I am "over" making intricate quilt blocks. Even the easy quilts take up more time than I ever expect to spend on them.
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