May finish.

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This quilt has a longish story attached. For our first GGGD, thirteen years ago, I had seen a picture of a baby quilt called Patchwork Pals, done by Red Rooster, promoting their fabrics. There must have been a pattern available with yardages etc. I know I started ordering and then I discovered that Fat Quarter Shop had complete kits.

Quilt was finished and because I had already ordered fabric I had leftovers. They have been languishing for lo these many years. I was looking for something totally unrelated in a bin and found that fabric. It was a preprinted stripey pattern in two widths and I had two rolls , one wide stripe, one narrower. Time for it to get used!

The challenge now was to find or create a pattern to use what I had .Lots of scrap paper, lots of numbers, lots of erasures. But I finally decided on one and here it is. It went together nicely and now I have none of that left because the last bits of stripe went in the backing.

Why do my edges always look wavy. They are straight and square.

Now to start my next project. After all the gardening gets done!

Theresa

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colleenoz

last month

Love it! So fresh and cheery without being overwhelmingly bright, since the white balances it nicely.

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msmeow
last month
Very nice, Theresa! I agree with Colleen, it’s a good balance of white and bright. And good job using up all of the fabric!
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loisflan
last month
Very pretty quilt, Theresa. You are amazing. You just keep making quilt after quilt. I’ve been in a slump. I made one top in April that I decided not to post until after it was quilted. I haven’t made another, although I did make a mahjong bag for my daughter. Maybe I’ll post a photo of it. It is quilted, after all.
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loisflan
last month
About the wavy edges… That bugs me too. Something that has helped me is putting a little tension on the binding strip as I’m sewing it on. Of course, I always use the measurement of the center of the quilt when I cut the border strips too. It’s often a little less than the edge measurement.
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nannykins
Original Author
last month
Tell me about slumps!! Lois, you have gardens to look after, boats to put in the water, and a myriad of other pressing chores. your mojo will be back soon. And we will be oohing and aahing at what you do.

Theresa
Char
9 days ago
Oh, Theresa, I like that very much! It has a fresh, clean, modern look to it. Well done!
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polardream1954
9 days ago
Theresa, that is a really refreshing quilt. I love the pattern.

Sue
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