My quilting thoughts and inspirations sprinkled with a glimpse of life down on the farm

Friday, March 31, 2023

A finish!

I don't seem to have many these days so it's exciting to be sitting here announcing a QUILT finish!
Back in February I shared a wee peek of some blocks I was making and I haven't talked about them since. The blocks are from a Sampler Quilt by Pen + Paper Patterns.
The fabrics I used are from various Poppie Cotton ranges, and the sewing was for the New Year's Launch at The Country Yard (discussed *here*) .
The block numbers multiplied and by March I finally had a top; basting time —
Firstly I quilted in all the blocks —
Then I started on the background fill —
It was a silly idea to do such a busy fill, but once I'd started I had to keep going - unless I wanted to unpick it all!!
By the time the New Year's Launch came around I wasn't finished. However, I sewed a bit of binding on and tidied it up. It looked reasonably presentable - and I'd done enough for people to see - it was/is a Block of the Month for the shop.
However I brought it home and have now finished the quilting.
Serious shot —
Close - up —
Fun shot —
Orchard shot (with no chickens) —
Corner showing how I did the binding. I used a tutorial by Karen of Karen's Quilts, Crows and Cardinals. I love this technique/finish and have used it many times over the years. It is a nice way to machine sew on a binding.
And because I couldn't decide which orchard/over the gate shot to use, here's another one!
'til next time,
happy stitches,

21 comments:

  1. I LOVE the quilt, especially the butterflies! Happy stitching!

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  2. This is a beautiful quilt and you took some fun photos!

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  3. Lovely quilt..worth all the work!

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  4. Lots of work but such cute blocks and fun fabrics you chose--love the quilt!!
    Happy Spring--
    hugs, di

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  5. What a lovely finish. Great photo shoot out on the farm.

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  6. Fabulous quilt and the quilting is perfect for it..... wonderful finish....
    Hugz

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  7. A really cute quilt. Fun and fresh--nice work. The quilting looks great, and I enjoyed the variety of photos around your place. I'll bet it feels so good to have it finished.

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  8. Such a fun quilt and great to get it finished. I have some of those fabrics, and this week I had some girls here and one was doing that same binding! Now I have seen it twice in a week, does that mean I need to do it on one of my quilts??

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  9. What a beauty! I’m sure lots of ladies will join in the BOM. Your quilting and the flange binding are the perfect finishing touches. Thanks for the link to the tutorial. I may try it one day.

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  10. It looks lovely. That should be a fun BOM.
    Great to have a finish.

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  11. Beautiful finish Raewyn, lovely colours and fabrics. xx

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  12. Beautiful shots! This is a great quilt, lovely fabrics and colors, and beautiful blocks together. Your quilting is awesome!

    The flange binding by machine is demonstrated on Brenda's Conquering Mount Scrapmore YouTube channel, and I like it a lot. I don't like doing any binding, don't like machine binding the way it turned out before, but the flange does help and covers a multitude of sins, so to speak.

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  13. That's a gorgeous finish. Hadn't seen that Pen and Paper design before, off to look it up

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  14. That’s such a fun quilt. I’ll bet the sewalong was a big hit. Your color choices are so pretty together and your quilting looks beautiful.

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  15. Hi Raewyn, what a lovely quilt...and that quilting! I hope you had fun FMQ, even if you had to hurry along. Thanks so much for linking up to Free Motion Mavericks. I love all of those pictures :-) Take care.

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  16. Wow! A beautiful finish Raewyn....worth the wait xx

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  17. Love your orchard shots of your beautiful quilt, well done on the finish.

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  18. A fabulous finish… all the blocks are lovely but the butterflies 🦋 are my favourite.
    Beautiful quilting and the flange binding looks great.

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  19. It is spring in the northern hemisphere so your quilt is timed perfectly. Love all the fun blocks. The snail is so cute. Congratulations on a beautiful finish and a successful photoshoot. When I finish a quilt, I pick a park with a lake or go to the banks of the Potomac river, and sometimes to a botanical garden with paid entry for a photoshoot. So I am slightly jealous that you have so many fun places to shoot right in your backyard. The chickens make everything fun :-)

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  20. Lovely quilt ... It looks great and I like the out door photos........

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  21. Wow this is a real beauty Raewyn! That quilting—! I had to enlarge some of the pics so I could drool/gaze at the motifs more closely! I love the last shot, but the one with the chickens is terrific too. Are you going to keep this one?

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