Quilt #2 is the 2022 Quilters By Hearts’ Desire Pizza Box Swap quilt. Last year we each put a length of background and focus fabrics, plus some FQs of coordinates in a pizza box. We made the first block, then at each meeting someone else took the box home. We don’t meet in December, so we received our boxes back in November with 10 additional blocks. I made a 12th block then put them together to make this quilt.
The blocks are set together with a 6″ wide sashing and corner stones giving the illusion of alternate blocks.
The quilt is custom quilted with several different quilt designs.
- Outer border – Alienfleur Border & Corners
- Inner border – ABM HFzag drop
- Setting Triangles – Anne Bright Hippie Double
- Setting Corners – Anne Bright Hippie Single
- Pieced Blocks – Anne Bright Hippie 4 Block
- Blocks formed around Corner stones – Sweet Dreams BD 2013 003
- Triangles formed in sashing – Kalediscope
At this point I must give a huge shout out to Capri, the System Administrator on the Innova AutoPilot Mach3 Owners FB group and owner of Bear Paw Quilts. I posted in a panic Saturday morning about something weird in my file when I opened it to resume quilting. She spent nearly 2 hours on the phone with me working through fixing the issue, then teaching me what I needed to do to finish the quilting. She also suggested the quilting motif for the blue sashing, which still needed to be quilted after I finished the computerized quilting.
I’m not sure it shows well here, but it is Point to Point curves from corner to corner.
I took the quilt outside before I bound it and all of the great texture can be seen.
Quilt Stats
- Started 1/9/2022
- Finished 1/16/2023
- Quilted with Glide 40wt in Cool Gray 7 – 4 bobbins
- Legacy 80/20 batting
- Top before quilting and washing 73 1/2 x 91 1/2
- After quilting and washing 67 x 86 1/2
For the label, I created a document in Word and printed it onto printable fabric. I moved the blocks out of month order, so the label reflects the block order and includes the name of the quilter, the block they made and the month they made it.
This quilt is on my 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO Challenge list.