I had these strips left over from making a Spiral Log Cabin quilt.
I sewed the strips together in to blocks and trimmed the blocks so that they were square.
To make the quilt bigger I added sashing borders with corner squares. I really like using corner squares in sashing since it makes it easy to line the rows up.
I added a inner border and an outer border to complete the quilt.
For the quilting, I stitched in the ditch on each side of the sashing. I stitched in the ditch on each side of the inner border.
For the blocks I used a plastic quilting template. I used my blue quilt marking pen that is supposed to fade to mark the quilting lines. I do have lots of quilt marking pens and I never know which one fade and which ones need to be ironed.
However the next day, the blue lines still showed so I spray the lines with water and most of them faded. The next day I had to spray some of the spots again. There is some blue in one of the fabrics so it was a little hard to tell if all the spots faded. The lesson learned is to spray the lines with water after I have finished the quilting.
For the quilting, I stitched in the ditch on each side of the sashing. I stitched in the ditch on each side of the inner border.
For the blocks I used a plastic quilting template. I used my blue quilt marking pen that is supposed to fade to mark the quilting lines. I do have lots of quilt marking pens and I never know which one fade and which ones need to be ironed.
However the next day, the blue lines still showed so I spray the lines with water and most of them faded. The next day I had to spray some of the spots again. There is some blue in one of the fabrics so it was a little hard to tell if all the spots faded. The lesson learned is to spray the lines with water after I have finished the quilting.
It looks nice on my table. It would probably look better on a smaller table.
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