Tuesday 15 May 2018

The Wedding Quilt.

The tree we planted last year, is covered in blooms.  It is a sugar plum.  The birds are loving it and so is our cat, she sits at the base and talks to the birds.

2018 Stitch a long:
Diane has been very busy, stitching.
Finding the way:

Placing all the pieces on the bed.
The large triangle borders.
The corners. Placed the center square in the inside of the large triangle borders, then I noticed the gap.  There should not be such a large gap.  Followed the pattern to a T. Something was amiss.
Measured the center, double checked that the frame was stitched on the right way. The measurements from the center measured exactly what the book said.  The width of the frame fabric was not right. (Printing error?...).
As this can be fixed, it became a design opportunity!
It required a bit of playing and testing against the large border triangles.
Eureka! it worked.
The finished quilt top.  It can now be quilted. So very glad it all worked out well.

                                                                   Happy Mother's Day 
     

PS: The wonder of Google, my son cooked me breakfast, afterwards he turned on the computer, came and gave me a big hug and said Happy Mother's Day.  He told me he saw it on the home page, thanks to Google!



Linking to Esther's Blog.






7 comments:

  1. so glad your quilt turned out - are you doing the quilting or having someone else I know you said you need it for a wedding present - it really is lovely and glad it worked out in the end

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  2. The quilting should be a breeze after all those triangles. The quilt looks very good.

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  3. Ohhh Maggie your wedding quilt is stunning and great recovery on the printing error!!! What a treasure for the couple who are the receives of this stunning quilt. LOVE love the colours. Lovely to see the Spring bulbs and blossoms I do miss those now we don't live in NZ . But I don't miss the cold of NZ LOL Hugs Glenda

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  4. That wedding quilt is magnificent! All those little triangles, pieced with such precision! I'm as impressed by your coping skills and creativity as I am with your patchwork skills, though. I can't imagine investing that much time and effort into a project only to discover a pattern error that cannot be corrected.

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  5. Well, I'm just in awe of the beauty of that quilt and all those perfectly placed triangles. And your stitchery and those lovely flowers. Joyful!

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