For the last charity quilt I did not feel like anything major and decided to just put an allover meander over it. Then I remembered having watched an Amanda Murphy video on FB where she uses the Star template to spruce up her meander. Decided to give that a go to make it a bit more interesting and to see how this would flow when doing the meander.
I used the 2-1/2in Star shape
Here it is in action
As you can see I have the needle in but the foot up while moving the template in. I am always very careful with rulers as I don't want to hit the ruler by mistake. I only lower the foot once the template is in the middle...only then do I position the template into place.
The meander with the Star template was much easier then I thought. Did not give me any issues at all in terms of quilting the overall meander. Fitted nicely into the overall scale. Not that you can see much of it on this scrappy quilt, but I know it is there 😀
Onto the next charity quilt...
This is a bigger quilt and as usual I basted it first before doing anything else.
Contemplated my thread choice for a long time...in the end I decided to run with the blue colour of the rectangles. Also laboured over the quilting choices as I am a bit busy with other things at the moment and still got another 4 charity quilts to complete after that. I have got about a week to complete this before visitors arrive from overseas! In the end though the quilt won...I think it wants an allover Baptist Fan design! This is going to take a while but the quilt is perfect for this design. The bottom edge is nice and straight and also the local group gave me cotton batting for some of the quilts in this lot, so it is very flat...really enjoying quilting on cotton for a change as the charity quilts usually come with wool batting.
So I made a start today using my fantastic Baptist Fan Rulers again. Can't recommend the Baptist Fan rulers from
Michael Quilts enough! I do think that they are the best on the market. The set I have has 1in spacing which I enjoy as it takes up a lot of space (3in, 5in, 7in, 9in and 11in template). On the sitdown of course the size can be somewhat challenging but if you take your time, go slow and deliberate it is all do-able. I have done a number of quilts now with these templates and still think they are the best thing since sliced bread.
So nice!
Apart from this I am still working on my scrappy log cabin quilt...I am up to 65 blocks...only 5 more to go. Must say that I lost my mojo for this. It would have been easier to just use 1-1/2in strips for this rather than strips of all sizes. At times I had difficulties judging my strips to get to the right end measurement of the block which at times was a hassle. Happy to say though it has made a noticeable dent in the strip department.
Also have been doing some quilt pattern work and promptly started another design for an Eye-Spy Quilt. I have got this stack of fabric that needs putting together but I do not want just a traditional squares quilt. Lots more work to be done on that before I can actually start on this
...and I got so many of those 😬
So, no time to waste...got lots to do!
