Step 5 - Finishing & Stitches

Here's just some of the stitches used for joining the pieces together - plus a personal name tag!

 

Step 4 - Making "Edges & Joiners"

These are the squares now complete with their joining fabrics placed ready for stitching.

After joining the main central pieces, the next step was to edge the quilt on the long edges using small strips & then binding all outer edges. Below are the 2 edging strips at either side of the long edges joined to the central panel.

 

Step 1 - Organise fabrics

The first part to the bed cover was sorting the many cotton fabric leftover pieces into some semblance of order & to ensure there was sufficient fabric. As the main colours ranged generally into pinks, blues & purples, it was decided to use this as a start with a backing lining chosen as being lilac (this was purchased as a flat double sheet in 200 count cotton).

After organising the fabrics, their sizing was next to be reviewed & at this point to start with (because of their varied shapes & sizes), try & join them into a radiating type of square - below are the first ones.

A "Summer Garden" is finished

Covid has meant that I've finally been able to finalise some projects that have been waiting to get completed. One of these was a way of using up a rather large pile of small cotton remnants that I thought would be a perfect "thank you" gift for one of my long-standing customers who I thought needed cheering up. Over the years, she has had many blouses & kimonos made - it seemed a pity to not use them up in some way. So armed with my recent Janome sewing machine, I asked the customer if she would like to have a single quilted throw made. She did - but not a quilted one .... just a cotton throw & here's the result (on a king size bed for the image) - all pieces have been stitched together using different pre-programmed machine embroidered stitches.

Full details will follow in due course as I've only just finished it!