Rachel LaBour of the blog Stitched in Color used her “Parsnips” design as a sewalong some months ago. Rachel has now made two “Parsnips” quilts and you can see those and her pattern on her beautiful blog.
When I cut fabrics I cut leftovers into sizes that I can use later, so I have two separate bins for 2 and 2.5-inch squares that really needed to be used, so I used the 2.5 inch squares for this quilt. Rachel used rectangles and her block is smaller than mine, so she has more blocks. Note that I added the lighter outside border so I could take the stars out to the edge of the quilt. I suppose I could have, also, just made that blue border wider, now that I think about it.
The backing is WILD! It’s a wideback print that I used on its side so I had to buy less fabric to cover the back–and I have the leftover fabric from the edge in my stash now. To compare, that would be 5 or 6 yards of 44-wide fabric (depending on the print drop both long and wide) versus 2 or 25 yards of a wideback. Using a wideback this way if the print allows is…cheaper.
And…now my fingers are itching to try some blocks like these in the wideback with my solid leftover strips. Maybe a stretched canvas piece…
“Fall’s Splendor” is off the longarm, trimmed and bound, and getting its binding sewn down at night. I’m really happy with the quilting texture and the thread color (a mustard yellow/gold).
Up next on the longarm, “Spring’s Song,” which is ready to be loaded.
My design wall is hopping and full of color. I will take pics of it in a few days.
As for the bin of 2-inch squares, there are placemats happening.
Summer is officially here, post July 4th.
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