Finally A Finished Quilt

Okay. Here it is. I promised you that I had a lot more to share. So here is the next installment. This quilt started as a 5 inch pinwheel block exchange at my quilt guild. Needless to say, when blocks are done by different quilters on different sewing machines, they end up with various finished sizes. My answer to this dilemma was to cut them down slightly. They went from a supposedly 5 inch square to a 4 1/4 inches. You ask why so much? Because some of them were that far off. Since most of the methods to produce the blocks varied...hand sewn as opposed to machine sewn, different 1/4 inch measures on sewing machine feet, and some of us used rotary cutters and rulers which are accurate than other methods. But, in the end, the blocks were more uniform before I assembled them into the quilt top.

Because there weren't enough blocks to make a twin sized quilt I decided to add four patch blocks every other block. But it still wasn't big enough for the size I wanted it to be so I added a 4 inch muslin border to it and then another border of  pinwheel and four patch blocks to it. I really liked the visual interplay between the two blocks and decided to emphasize this with quilting them on the diagonal. I finished with a muslin binding and FINALLY it was finished.

I have to confess though, the center part of this quilt lived in a drawer for two years or more before I decided to finish the project. Another confession: there are more UFO in that drawer. LOL!

Waaaa! Missing out on my quilt guild meeting

Okay. I admit I'm being pouty (lips protruding). Our quilt guild meets twice a month and, since the last meeting was canceled due to bad weather, I was looking forward to tonight's meeting. But, lo and behold, our driveway is partially melted and just soft enough to make it hard to negotiate. I just don't want to get stuck trying to go out so poor me, I'll just have to wait for the next meeting. I've finished a wall hanging that I made for a friend who just bought a new-to-her house and I wanted to share with the other members. So I'll share it tonight with you and wait to share it with the guild at the next meeting. The really sad thing is that she told me she likes blue but not pink. LOL! So this one will likely be sold and I'll give her one from my stash...Blue birdhouses. Sorry, I don't have a picture to share with you.

But, looking on the bright side, a small group from the guild meet at each others' house one afternoon a month and tomorrow is the next meeting. The driveway will definitely be frozen firm (single digits tonight) enough to manage the trip out. You think that a driveway shouldn't be that hard to deal with but ours is 350 feet long! Oh, the country life. Haha!

 Here's another one in progress to share with you. The pinwheel blocks were a quilt guild exchange. there weren't enough of them to make half of a quilt so I added my own four patch blocks. But it still wasn't big enough so...a four inch muslin border and another row of pinwheel and four patch blocks for the border. It's big enough for a twin bed now and altogether it makes for an interesting pattern. I'm very pleased with the effect. Now to quilt it. Won't be tomorrow...going to the quilting group! Think I'll take some handwork to do.