Monday, December 18, 2017

Black Selvages with red

This is another one that my sister is sending to my niece. It is 60x75.  With selvages on a base fabric, plus heavy batting, this is a heavy quilt. selvage quilts are always heavier due to multiple seams and base fabrics.

Blocks are 7". All blocks have a red strip in the middle. In the border blocks i used mainly the white parts of the selvages.

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I quilted an X in each block and then a line from side to side and top to bottom. And went around all blocks, too. It was continuous on each row, with 5 passes.

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I broke a needle on the second row in a thick intersection of blocks. I switched to a leather needle and didn't have any more breakage.

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But I did have a few intersections that I couldn't sew through and had to make a little circle around it.

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Look for zombies in the border. haha

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The back is a black, gray and red plaid flannel.  I used the same fabric as the back for the binding.

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Top thread was Glide Black; bobbin was So Fine Taupe...which looks grey on the backing.

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