Global Pandemic Quilt #2

I thought, ‘If you don’t have time to finish this quilt now, you never will.” And then I went to work each evening and on weekends to create the quilt top.

Using what I have at hand.

Decided on a border based on the fabric I had in the house. Is moss green going to work?

I was NOT going out to a fabric store, any store really, and buying fabric online seemed silly when I have so much of it in tubs in closets. But making a match was tricky. I’d originally envisioned this quilt with some sort of purple sashing. I am so glad I couldn’t go get that purple. It would have ruined the entire thing.

Laid out.

Not stitched

Each block now has four corner triangles. This creates the inner squares and pull the quilt together.

The pieces between the squares is called sashing, but I’m not sure what you call it when you add four triangles to each square to make it a larger square. It works to set the on-point squares and the triangles merge to make additional squares between them. Someone out there knows what this is called.

I drew this out on a piece of paper and used my colored pencils to see if the green would work and how the structure the triangles on the point to make pinwheels. Then I made the triangles and attached four to each sample square. I like the results!

The border is on! I’m nearly out of moss green.

Two inner borders and a wide outer border tied the colors together. Now I wonder if I have enough of that third patterned color to make the binding? It will be close.

What makes a quilt?

It’s not a quilt without three layers - Quilt top, batting and backing. The quilting holds it together.

Why am I outside putting the layers together? I’m trying spray adhesive to save from having to baste the three layers together.

Quilting begins.

I’m using grey that shows up on the yellow and the purple.

I HATE the adhesive. It snags the needle and I need a silicone thumb cover to tug the needle through. Quilting is not frustrating instead of fun. The quilting is difficult because of the spray adhesive. I would use it again only on machine quilted projects that are small. Never again for a large quilt. The good news, it did all come out in the washing.

Quilted while writing The Hunted Girls.

Here is the finished product. I did have enough for the binding, that the small outer edge. The fabric is doubled and machine stitched to one side then hand stitched to the back.

Just enough fabric left to make this mask.

That was really close!