Alana moved into a new apartment. I had three scrappy quilt tops I made a while ago - January 2024 to be precise. I showed them to Alana, asked her to pick one. She chose this:
I was going to use this as the backing:
It was fabric someone gave me but on closer inspection, I found lots of tiny rust marks, so I nixed that idea. I will cut up the fabric and chuck the rust pieces.
Then I found these, also donated fabrics and put them together to form one large backing piece.
But I still needed white on white for the outside borders. I had already used up most of my white on whites for the sashing and didn't have any left. I also needed batting. I was going to buy Hobbs 80/20 from Kawartha Quilting. They have a fantastic price for a full bolt, but with shipping, it comes out the same as buying it elsewhere. So I made the trip down to Fabricland at Yonge & Bloor and bought a metre of white on white (because I was too lazy to do the math for how much I actually needed) and I bought my favorite brand of batting - on sale... and blue and white variegated thread (which I didn't use because I went with the purple fabric and already had purple variegated thread). But nothing else even though stuff was on sale.
So I made my sandwich and am sewing diagonal lines through the blocks. Not so easy with a double bed quilt topper and a regular throat on my sewing machine. I did get all the diagonals in one direction, not properly marking the quilt lines and semi eyeballing it. It looks OK. (if my quilt top is scrappy, my quilting is somewhat scrappy without the "s".) But it is fine. The big picture.
I will either quilt the second half this afternoon or tomorrow. Then binding, pieced from the two purples. And will be finished in time for my small quilting group meeting next Wednesday. Yay!
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