Gail started putting this disappearing nine patch quilt together while we were at our last retreat as a gift for her mum. Gail was going to quilt it herself but life got in the way so she asked me to help. Out of interest I recorded how long it took me to complete this project.
I reinforced the seams.
I pinned the backing to the frame and laid the wadding and quilt top on top. I then had to decide what colour thread to use. I thought grey would work but the best colour turned out to be a light brown. So I filled a few bobbins, created the design in CAD and made sure the quilt was square before I started.
This all took me an hour.
This is the quilting pattern. It's called Trillium and Judy chose it for me because I was having one of those days where I just couldn't decide what to use!
I enlarged it a fair bit because not only does it look great but it's quick to quilt. And...ahem...it's also quick to unpick. I played around too much with the automation and started quilting the last row on the first row. I noticed fairly quickly but it still took me half an hour to unpick my silly error!
As you roll the quilt on to start the next row of quilting you then have to smooth out the wadding and quilt top and make sure everything is still square. I added some basting lines as I went which helps keep everything straight and I'm always relieved when I get to the end of the quilting and the bottom edge is relatively nice and even.
And Ta Da! Here it is!
Look at the lovely texture of the quilting.
My last job was removing the basting lines, which I did whilst watching TV and then I added up my timings and worked out that start to finish this little quilt took me five and a half hours to complete. I had no idea it took that long! Ha ha!
A few of us are going away for retreat at Ballarat soon. I hear that Judy and Kate have been busy prepping so they can sew sew sew. I'm still busy wondering what wine to take! I'm thinking that I should crack on with burying threads in my camera quilt so I can get it back up on the frame to finish off. I might even take my greyhound cross stitch. Hopefully it makes it out of the bag this time!
