BLOG 262

BLOG 262

 Dilys’s Multi-coloured Dream Quilt … and finally!

I prepared two 9” squares for the corner triangles and six 15” squares for the edge triangles. The backing and batting were cut slightly larger and then they were prepared as a quilt sandwich ready for free-motion quilting.

 

Quilt sandwich

 

Free motion quilting

 

After quilting, the 2 small blocks were trimmed to 8 ½” (slightly larger than I needed to be on the safe side!) and each one was then cut on one of the diagonals only to give me two triangles with the straight grain on the two short edges. This gave me the 4 corners.

 

Corner triangles

 

The large squares were trimmed to 14 ½” and each one was cut on both diagonals to produce four triangles with the straight grain on the long edges.

 

Prepared triangles

 

This is how both of the triangles look before being sewn into place.

 

Position of triangles

 

They are sewn in place with the two strips on the seam in exactly the same way as the rest of the blocks, ready for the final assembly.

 

 

Triangles added

 

I couldn’t resist trying some of the strips out for size; it gave me much needed encouragement to get the quilt finished. The strips are lying over the hexagon garden quilt they will eventually replace.

 

 

Final seam

 

 

The rest of the quilt

 

Back

 

Front

 

Final edge trim

 

Binding

 

I prepared a 2” straight-cut strip for the single binding, sewing it in place with my walking foot (this gives me an accurate ½” seam). I will be hand sewing the binding in front of the TV tonight and with a bit of luck and lots of application I will have this on the bed before the day is through!! HURRAH!