Amie has finished her postage stamp quilt top! And I do hereby pronounce that as a reason to celebrate! I am sure Amie was doing a little happy dance when she clipped that last thread off the machine. She posted both to Facebook and an email to me to announce the good news.
I really can't believe I did it. It was a lot of fun to sort through all the scraps and pick out what to use for the last blocks. It might be a Postage Stamp quilt, but I find it to also be an I-Spy quilt. I really did a lot of fussy cutting. You can find all kinds of things when you take some time and really study it. You can also find several fabrics sewn in wrong side up - oops!
Here are my final stats:
56 12-inch blocks
8064 little 1-inch squares (some more square than others!)
fabric donated by 13 friends and family
AND 132 Grit readers from 37 states
around 4 years to complete (huge time lapses when I didn't work on it or I had other projects to work on)
3 big tubs of leftover fabrics
Of
course even though I am calling it a finish, it still needs to be
quilted and bound. I want to find a wide quilt back for it since it has
so many seams already. If you were binding it would you keep with the
scrappy-ness and piece a binding of many fabrics or would you select a
solid binding to calm the chaos? I've gone back and forth trying to
decide.
What do you readers think about a scrappy binding? Or should she use one solid binding? Please share your recommendations and thoughts on the matter here, so that Amie can use the input to make her decision.
Amie had additional news and info to share in her email:
As for as the leftover scraps, my mom and sister are spending the day next Saturday
and we are going to start piecing the Gypsy Wife quilt. The pattern
calls for 60 assorted fabric strips. I've got that covered!
A lot of people sent fabric that they had cut into various sized
squares, mostly 2 or 2 1/2 inch. I have separated those out into a
separate container to make baby quilts to donate to an organization I
belong to that makes warm weather items for the homeless. Last year I
think we donated around 10,000 hats, scarves, baby blankets and lap
robes. Check out the website: knittingcrochetingministry.
On
another note, today the sailboat quilt was given to my friend at her
baby shower. I am happy to report that it got rave reviews. The baby
will be named Noah, so little boats were very appropriate. It's funny
to me that non-quilters always want to know how long it took to make.
Today, I am off for a day of sewing at my friend Terry's. I hope to have a work shirt finish to share with you tomorrow.
Happy Quilting, Friends!
I vote for a dark scrappy binding. That quilt is so gorgeous. I even showed it to my husband. I love it. Please pass this on to Amie. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI was going to say a black or dark binding. beautiful quilt and great job!
ReplyDeleteI think a solid dark binding would frame it nicely. And I agree with her about people always asking now long a quilt took. I never know because I work on several at a time.
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