This then is the last of the quilts I received from Stitches for Africa. I
think it is made using the Jelly Roll Race pattern but to me, an ideal chance
to practise my border/sashing designs. I
counted 35 rows, so if I select 5 motifs I can repeat them 7 times.
For this one, I joined batting again and made a nice dent in
my batting stash doing these quilts. We
have a public holiday and hubby made me breakfast as he didn’t yesterday when
it was Woman’s Day; he played golf early morning. He then left to help the younger kids with
their fence, so I had the day all to myself.
I started off with a motif that I am fairly familiar with
but once done from left to right I came back for a second pass doing a smaller
motif inside the first.
The second motif I’ve seen many times but never applied it
to any of the quilts I’ve done, so this was new to me and I think rather pretty
and easy.
Third up was the paperclip, a motif I learnt when doing an
internet class through Bold Notion Quilting, this was so much fun way back then
and now.
This motif is called Penguin Curl and I first saw a video on
it by Quilted Joy and months ago promised a quilter that I’d do it on her
border but I chickened out last minute.
At that stage, I did not feel comfortable trying something new on a
customer quilt. Well, now I can do it.
Another trusted old favourite is the herringbone and I
spaced mine out wide for the first pass and came back with a smaller version
inside from the right to left
I should have stopped at the fifth motif but there are just
so many to choose from that I changed my calculations and opted for 7 motifs
repeating these only 5 times. This was a
continuous half heart.
Last up was Onion Peel a motif I tried when doing a dog
blanket a while ago. I don’t think I got
it quite right this time but it is done and that’s the way it will stay for all
the other repeats.
For the two side borders, I did half-inch wide piano keys as
these are fairly successfully done when quilting from top to bottom having to
advance the quilt regularly. The blue
water-soluble pen lines will be removed during the first cold water wash.
Done just as hubby arrived back home.
That concludes all the quilts for others that I had in my
possession and I think my arthritis hands and shoulder can do with a break.
So I ended off this public holiday in the best possible way.
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