I am participating in an on-line longarming quilt along – Nine Patch-Along 7.0 taught by Natalia Bonner of Piece N Quilt. In the ideal world, I would have finished this top and had it loaded sometime last week. Instead, I was scrambling to finish the top Monday morning. But all in fine. The class runs 9 day – one 9-patch a day starting yesterday.
All fabric is from my stash. I found a piece of backing 44″ x 88″. The quilt is 50″ x 60″ – So John Flynn’s Diagonal Pieced backing to the rescue. I had exactly enough backing fabric for this quilt. In a lucky happenstance, I set the second piece of fabric down so I could measure and it turned out to be exactly where I needed it to be.
I love a wide back without seams, but the diagonal seam works well and doesn’t create bulk. The hard part is cutting the diagonal.
I’ve recently had a couple of quilts which were 68″ wide. A couple of those cutoffs allowed me to make a frankenbatt. I zig-zaged with a 7.0 stitch width and I think 1.4 length. When making frankenbatts, be sure the ‘grain’ is aligned.
I finally got the quilt loaded and basted, so it was time to stitch.
There is supposed to be a feather border. I got the vine in OK. After about 2 loops which were supposed to be feathers, I stopped and ripped them out. I’ll circle back the border in a the next day or two.
These are the first 4 bonus blocks. My free-motion needs practice – although the flowers in the green square aren’t too bad. I need to find my dry erase marker and doodle some feathers before I do the next couple of squares.
