I went on another 1 day course at Hometown in Rochester, this time it was a quick trip around the world and was led by Kate Higgens. It was set so we could make the entire quilt topper in a day, it started at 10.30 and I just had mine finished by 4.30. Given the season I thought I would do another Christmas quilt, feeling optimistic about completing it. The quilt, excluding borders, binding and backing fabric uses 6 fat quarters - it was surprising at the end to see how large the quilt was.
It was a very quick way of piecing, cutting your quarters into strips, then stitching them together before cutting them in the opposite direction to get patchwork strips. There is no unpicking like with some quilts as you cut on the seam of stitches and then in the middle of the piece alternatively. The cutting did require some concentration, I managed to cut one piece wrongly but thankfully the pattern allowed for 2 mistakes. The quilt was then made in 2 halfs and then the seams matched and stiched together.
I feel this description is rather rambling but I forgot to take photo's as I was going along. Anyway I did a plain fabric for the inner border that you cut 1 inch wide and then used one of the lighter fabrics for the outer border.
I was pleasantly surprised with the neatness of the piecing, although it was not that difficult to do. In addition there was no seam matching until you pieced the 2 halves together.
Thankfully I had plenty of the light gold star fabric left for the backing and used some 30/70 polyester/cotton for the batting. This one was a Christmas present, my MIL was very pleased to receive it.
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