Good day, and welcome to my blog. It's a seasonally cool morning in the American Midwest.
I have a finish to report! My guideline is to finish quilt projects as well as start new ones, and I have started several new ones this summer and fall. I pulled out this top from 2021. The pattern (Three at a Time) is from Moda's Sew a Jelly roll webpage. They put up free patterns for the yearly "Sew a Jelly Roll" day, in September.
It is 64 by 66 inches in size, takes one jelly roll, and some yardage of a background fabric, in this case a dark charcoal gray.
Start of project (March 2021) is described in this blog post.
A close up:
I quilted in the ditch with a variegated King Tut thread on top. The colors were close to the jelly roll colors. The quilting lines ended up being about 4 inches apart.
The back is cobbled together from several offcuts from other quilts, but all the same fabric. The batting is also put together from leftovers from previous projects. I straighten the edges of the batting, overlap the pieces by 1/8 inch or so, and sew over the join with a long and wide zigzag stitch on my sewing machine. This was good because the quilting lines were some distance apart. I could have just laid out the batting pieces with a slight overlap, pin and then quilt, but they would likely shift and make gaps.
The binding is a different dark charcoal gray fabric. (I could not find any of the background fabric for binding.) You cannot tell from more than 3 feet away.
Why is the pattern called Three at a Time, when the columns have groups of 6 fabric bars? I really don't know.
Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps (she featured my Limeade top in R/W/B/, thank you!), Design Wall Monday, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, I Quilted This! at Quilting and Learning, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.
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Viridian
4 comments:
Love your Three at a Time quilt. I've added the instructions to my computer....I have a ridiculous number of batiks and might use them for this quilt. I like the dark background too. Terrific job and thanks for the pattern source.
Your quilt is very striking! I like the background paired with this jelly roll! :)
Very pretty!!
This is a very cool finish, Viridian.
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