3 QAYG finished charity quilts
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3 QAYG finished charity quilts
I finished these three this week--had been working on them the last few weeks and just finished them all this week!
The first is made up of 2" squares--10x10 and I made 20 big blocks and then combined them. That means 2000 squares. [ATTACH=CONFIG]401912[/ATTACH] I hand stitched the sashing on the back but did the binding completely by machine.
Back side:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401913[/ATTACH]
The next two were made up of 4" blocks. Once again...I wasn't really thrilled with my squares--they were very ordinary squares (color wise--mostly very uninteresting) and some I was quite tired of after seemingly taking forever to use these up. I tried to work the 4" down to almost gone, but I still have at least three more large quilt tops worth of 4" squares to sew together out of squares already cut.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401914[/ATTACH]
back of this one
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401915[/ATTACH]
and finally:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401916[/ATTACH]
and
back:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401917[/ATTACH]
Both of these are QAYG and I used scrappy blues and pinks for the back. One of them I used the blue binding and on the other, I ran out of that blue so I switched to digging out 2.5" strips in pastel blues and pinks out of my 2.5" strips bag.
I used the method that Leah Day proposes on her website in joining the squares except that the for these two quilts I did it ALL BY MACHINE--no hand stitching. I made it so that I was sewing from the front side and top stitching the front down instead of stitching from the back as is the usual recommended method.
The first is made up of 2" squares--10x10 and I made 20 big blocks and then combined them. That means 2000 squares. [ATTACH=CONFIG]401912[/ATTACH] I hand stitched the sashing on the back but did the binding completely by machine.
Back side:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401913[/ATTACH]
The next two were made up of 4" blocks. Once again...I wasn't really thrilled with my squares--they were very ordinary squares (color wise--mostly very uninteresting) and some I was quite tired of after seemingly taking forever to use these up. I tried to work the 4" down to almost gone, but I still have at least three more large quilt tops worth of 4" squares to sew together out of squares already cut.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401914[/ATTACH]
back of this one
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401915[/ATTACH]
and finally:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401916[/ATTACH]
and
back:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]401917[/ATTACH]
Both of these are QAYG and I used scrappy blues and pinks for the back. One of them I used the blue binding and on the other, I ran out of that blue so I switched to digging out 2.5" strips in pastel blues and pinks out of my 2.5" strips bag.
I used the method that Leah Day proposes on her website in joining the squares except that the for these two quilts I did it ALL BY MACHINE--no hand stitching. I made it so that I was sewing from the front side and top stitching the front down instead of stitching from the back as is the usual recommended method.
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