Hollyhocks: A quilting UFO prevention

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  Today I am reporting a finish.  It is bound and this prevents this quilt from becoming a UFO - an unfinished object.

I had purchased the pattern for this quilt a long time ago (it's copyrighted 2002!), and it languished in my quilting space.  This year I bought some batik fabrics, and it was time to sew it up.

I blogged about it this summer: https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2024/08/hollyhocks-now-top.html

The finished top was sent to the long armer I use - always a wonderful job - and it's back and bound.

A close up of the quilting pattern:

The pattern is Posy Patch/Hollyhocks. By U Can 2, Quick and Easy quilts by Eileen Sullivan copyright 2002.  Quilt finishes about 50 by 60 inches, I think.

As it is done, it does not carry over into next year.  Remember I play the UFO game as mentioned in my last post. 

It's Thanksgiving week here in the USA.  Hope you have a great one.

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Hollyhocks: Now a top

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I've been getting a lot done in my sewing nook this summer.

I unearthed an old pattern - yes it's copyrighted 2002.

I purchased a range of batik fabrics in pinks, raspberry, and greens, and started.  Instructions are given for templates, rotary cutting, and foundation piecing.  One block done was not very exciting.

And hollyhocks have five petals, not 4.  But I continued on.

Laid out on my design floor.  Dark green background at the bottom, for foliage and shadows, and blue/white batik for sky and clouds above.

I am almost done!  I added a 5 inch border in medium green all around.  It does look like hollyhocks, and I am quite pleased with how this turned out.

I will send this to the long arm quilter I use, once I pick out a quilting pattern, and find some backing fabric.  My older sewing machine did not like sewing on batik fabric with its high thread count - tension troubles!

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt and stamp posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

Viridian