This finish is a long time coming! September 2011 is when I asked my Fall Bee Mates to create Wonky Square Blocks for me. At the time, I had not figured out what style I liked so I used the dotted fabric as my color palette choices. Obviously, this was the beginning of my entrance into modern quilting as I included green (not a color I care for now).
I was going to do some FMQ on this but when the time came to do it, I just wasn't feeling it, so I used a curvy stitch from my machine to do horizontal lines.
Something new that I tried with this quilt was machine binding. Never again! Hand binding is enjoyable to me. Machine binding was a bit more difficult. I had to keep checking the other side to make sure I was catching it and I got stuck from my pins a lot too. It may be that with machine bindings I would need to have a bigger strip. I prefer 2" bindings currently and that was probably a hindrance.
In any event, it's done and I am oh so happy to move this very old WIP to the completed list!
I am connecting to the Let's Get Acquainted Link Up today - go see what every one else is making too!
Lovely!
ReplyDeleteLoving the back as well as the front.
ReplyDeleteLove the log cabin quilt, im in a bit of a log cabin zone this week too, think youve persuaded me to go wonky!
ReplyDeleteLove the log cabin! And the colors are some of my favorites!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great - I really like the stitching.
ReplyDeleteWow - 2011! It is amazing how over just a few years some major changes can occur in our taste levels, like green not being a favorite color. I haven't been quilting long enough to have regrets on color choices made previous years, but I have been sewing my daughter's clothes long enough to have a few - what was I thinking when I decided to make an all orange dress! But...those are the things in the timeline that remind us of where we have been and where we are headed!
ReplyDelete