Zebra Burst BLock Quilt is done
05-21-2025, 05:26 AM
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Zebra Burst BLock Quilt is done
Finally got this bad boy finished and shipped off to Virginia yesterday. So many folks mentioned they saw "eyes" in the quilt so I decided to create an "eye" pattern to fill it in. At first I thought to use a dark grey thread but I didn't have one dark enough that it wouldn't take away from the rest of the quilt so I went back to black thread.
I made a lot of mistakes from the get go on this quilt. 1st I should have used the grey blender backing instead of the zebra backing so the quilting could be seen better. Plus the grey backing was also larger so I wouldn't have had to splice the backing to fit the quilt as it came out at 107 x 107. I added strips of the zebra backing to the top and bottom and just barely made it at the bottom so there won't be an extra seam there but there will be at the top.
Next I didn't trm the batting to size so I had a lot of overhang and on the right side the batting got caught on the border pattern so I had to make another quilt label large enough to cover where the batting got caught.
As I was quilting, I noticed I didn't do as well with my stitching of the blocks together so another OOPS!!! on me. I made this quilt a number of years ago so you can count this as a finished UFO off my list at least.
So here is the finished product though my photos won't show you the quilting as well as I'd like. If you enlarge the backing photo, you might be able to see the eye pattern though.
I just hope my friend will like it anyway. Plus I made 3 throw pillows with embroidered zebra designs on them plus I used the scrap blocks to make 2 small quilts for her kitties named Sherlock and Watson so very little scraps leftover so a plus for me.
Seems I didn't take photos of the kitty quilts, darn it as they were cute.
I made a lot of mistakes from the get go on this quilt. 1st I should have used the grey blender backing instead of the zebra backing so the quilting could be seen better. Plus the grey backing was also larger so I wouldn't have had to splice the backing to fit the quilt as it came out at 107 x 107. I added strips of the zebra backing to the top and bottom and just barely made it at the bottom so there won't be an extra seam there but there will be at the top.
Next I didn't trm the batting to size so I had a lot of overhang and on the right side the batting got caught on the border pattern so I had to make another quilt label large enough to cover where the batting got caught.
As I was quilting, I noticed I didn't do as well with my stitching of the blocks together so another OOPS!!! on me. I made this quilt a number of years ago so you can count this as a finished UFO off my list at least.
So here is the finished product though my photos won't show you the quilting as well as I'd like. If you enlarge the backing photo, you might be able to see the eye pattern though.
I just hope my friend will like it anyway. Plus I made 3 throw pillows with embroidered zebra designs on them plus I used the scrap blocks to make 2 small quilts for her kitties named Sherlock and Watson so very little scraps leftover so a plus for me.
Seems I didn't take photos of the kitty quilts, darn it as they were cute.
05-21-2025, 05:55 AM
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You are very talented and I don't see a single "mistake". Love the "eye" popping quilt and quilting. Wow....that is a LOT of time and creativity for a good friend. I'm sure she will love it and it is out of your UFO pile, so a win-win.
