Saturday I turned in my Suffrage Quilt. I’ll post a picture as soon as I can. The next thing on my list was getting the Guild Challenge quilt webpages built. Once that was done it was time to find something to work on. I pulled this 2007 -2008 BOM out of the box – primarily because I have a wide back for it.
This Moda U BOM was presented by Heritage Fine Fabrics in Belton back in 2007-2008. The patterns were simple line drawings with the measurements – no instructions on how to sew the pieces together. Connie, the shop owner, asked me to write instructions and put together a couple of quilt layouts. I designed this one to leave plenty of space to show off quilting.
With the quilt loaded and thread picked, I started to wind a bobbin. The winder wouldn’t wind! Nothing I did could make it work. I called my longarm dealer and they didn’t have any in stock. I posted my lament on Facebook and a guild member offered me hers as she won’t be using her machine for the next few weeks. I was back in business Sunday afternoon.
I have no idea what I’m going to do in the border & sashing, so for now, I’m doing stitch in the ditch and I’ll come back later. In the meantime, my sister showed me how to drop a block into a boundary. So each of the unpieced blocks will have this wreath.
I’m making up the rest of the quilting as I go along. I tried a bit of computerized cross-hatching in the background of this block.
