Yesterday was the last day I could hang the top on the design wall. I had run out of space horizontally. So here is the top on my ‘design bed’. The last row is not attached, nor is the sashing which goes between the last two rows. The good news is when this row is finally attached I will be past the halfway point of the center. I also have half of the blue and half of the black borders pieced. Ironically, I’ll need the gray border first and since that was not part of the original design, I haven’t even cut it.
This is my backing fabric. The background fabric is a 108″ digital printed fabric. I absolutely love the colors and think it is perfect for my Frolic — other than it is about 8″ too narrow for my enlarged quilt. I decided as much as it pained me to buy a wide back and then still have to piece it it was perfect and I would worry about that “tomorrow”. Well, it’s not quite “tomorrow”, but it’s close enough that when I ran to the shop today to buy fabric for the inner border and binding, I looked around to see if I could find anything I could add to the backing. I bought two pieces because I didn’t know which would work best and decided this stripe is the answer. I will piece a few stars to go on the back, but 3 is a far cry fewer than the 15 I’d need to run them down the length of the backing.
The last few days I’ve been using the pieced border as my leader/ender project, but I need to pin together (one corner) the units in the right orientation and haven’t done that, so I pieced the last Easy Breezy block I had cut out. That brings the total to 11 blocks. I think I want 182 blocks, so I have a ways to go.
As for the baby quilt, I still have not found the binding fabric. I think my sister was present the last time I saw it, so maybe she can remember what box I shoved it into.
- Bind Baby 4-Patch Stacked Posies
- The blue, black and white quilt is my Frolic the goal is to finish the top. Started with 5 blocks I need 41, 16 side setting triangles. 4 corners and the pieced borders for my enlarged quilt.
- Center blocks, setting triangles and corners completed 7/7/2020
- 3 rows assembled 7/8/2020
- Row 4 attached, Row 5 assembled 7/9/2020
- Bonus #1 – Pillowcases:
- Allietare
- Narragansett Blues
- Bonus #2: Pillowcases for quilts already completed
- Christmas Crazy 8s
- En Provence (2)
- Carolina Chain
- Bonus #3: Quilt, bind, label and make pillowcase (2) for Frolic.
Easy Breezy – 11
