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A Blue And Orange Finish.

Posted on | October 27, 2019 | 14 Comments

The catch up is continuing with tops waiting to be finished. I think this top was ready in November last year, so it has had to wait nearly a year to be completed. Lots of blue and orange in this one.

This quilt started when I saw the bird fabric. It was an end of bolt piece so I knew I was limited to what I had – no more available. So I pulled out lots of fabrics from my stash in orange and blue then set to work making squares and pinwheels to use in the top. I had to get the maths skills well into gear and used a grid to draw up a plan.

I cut the larger pieces so there was little wastage of the bird fabric, then framed each one in either blue or orange. Lots of counting came next to work out blocks to fill spaces and link the larger pieces

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Once the main part of the top was together I added the blue border, the used what was left of the orange fabrics to make a pieced border. I can guarantee there was very little fabric left at the end. It was a tight finish.

I quilted the main body of the quilt with a wide meander, but then had a play with some (sort of) echo quilting on each panel. I kept with straight line quilting around each panel.

The back ended up being quite bright – orange.

The same blue went into the binding as was used to frame some of the blocks. The quilting showed up nicely on the back, too.

One thing that is not obvious in the smaller pictures is the detail on the bird fabric. I love the designs, mostly on their wings.

It is great to have another finish. I have one more quilt sandwiched and ready to go but of course there are other tops still waiting for a turn. The best part is I feel good about starting a few new projects.

Hope you do too.

Cheers, Karen

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