Finally finished my William Morris quilt, made from two Moda layer cakes: The Morris Workshop, and, Morris Earthly Paradise, designed by Barbara Brackman. This quilt has gone to a friend, who loves William Morris designs as much as I do.
I had planned to quilt a little bit fancier but ran out of time, so it is straight line quilted in the ditch of each block, and then diagonally across each one.
Finished size: 63" x 90"
This is the first quilt I've sandwiched using my "new" table tennis table. Someone, somewhere had mentioned their use of one as a sandwiching table so I picked it up cheaply on Facebook Marketplace. It is much easier to do the basting in your own house, rather than taking everything to the local hall to use their tables. And far, far, far easier than basting the quilt on the floor, which is too much for my back and knees these days. The TT table is 2.7m x 1.5 so a little narrower than the William Morris quilt. It was easy to clamp the quilt on the overhang side so that once most of it was pinned, I could untape it and slide it across to finish the pinning. I had hoped to sit in a chair to do much of the pinning but the folding table legs preclude that. When I finished pinning, my back and knees thanked me profusely!
I did make a quick fabric bag to hold the quilt for gifting to my friend. The David Textiles fabric is a dressweight, so not really the best for a bag, but it will do.
The QAYG strip quilt was finished in April but I am not happy with the sashing strips not lining up. I am going to unpick some of the seams and re-do the sashing. So this quilt will be a real finish another time.
