Month 5 of Blocks3 Class

Tara Faughnan called her month 5 block in this year’s 6-month Blocks3 online class “Pillars.”

My effort wound up to be part Tara Faughnan and part Maria Shell. I’m not sure how that happened. It just did. And it took me several sewing sessions to complete as it was a bit more intense due to the smaller strips and getting it all to fall into a pattern I liked.

But I like it. And I especially like the diagonal matchstick quilting as I think that making the quilting directional adds to this design.

This piece measures about 11 by 12 inches, and this piece is the first where I sewed the binding down on the front with my machine–using a Janome foot I ordered called a “left side bi-level foot.” This foot’s right side is higher than the left side, which allows the foot to run along the edge of the binding. One moves the needle to where it will hit the binding’s edge. (There is also a right-edge version of this foot.). I secure the corners by hand for neatness.

I need more practice with sewing on binding and with this foot, but this is the first time I have not removed machine binding stitching and sewn it down by hand.

I am…encouraged!

For now, my “Pillars” effort is on my kitchen bar under a flower vase.

I think it adds something interesting, don’t you?