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A problem quilt has been hogging space in the sewing room for months--my Christmas print version of Then Came June's Meadowland quilt. In December I had done some free motion quilting of motifs with freezer paper, and then attempted a candy cane in the rectangles along the edges of the quilt, which bombed. The quilt was in time out and taking up space since then. I finally got sick of looking at it and revisited the issues. The main one was that I had a LOT of threads to bury.
This pic is before I had blotted away most of the blue marking pen.
It took quite a lot of time to get all those thread tails buried! After inspecting the quilt post a rinse and dry, I opted to leave the corners and side rectangles unquilted.
If I change my mind, something can always be added. I have a few missed spots catching the binding to mend too. The project box turned out to have extra block pieces I didn't remember were there.
The corner squares were neutral in the quilt pattern (I changed them to one big square for my quilt construction row style), but for this single block I cut squares of leftover We Whisk You a Merry Christmas prints. Such a fun fabric line. I won the stack of fat quarters at Sewtopia a few years ago.
3 comments:
Hurray for tackling fixing your Meadowland quilt. It's beautiful!
A very fun finish. It always feels so good to get one of the those time out quilts out of the corner and finished.
A great rescue! Now it's no longer taking up physical space or mental space. And thanks for reminding me about the block/design.
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