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Checking the Fit …

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Checking the Fit of Dad's Quilt top

… of Dad’s Samurai-ish quilt, and I think it’s just fine without borders added.  Yay!  I’ve changed my mind about backing fabrics, so I’ll have to order something else and then get this baby to the quilt shop.

I’ve slowed down a little too much on my hand sewing of binding.  There’s another quilt that only needs a little bit of work to finish, but every time I try to sit with it on the couch,  kittens crawl all over me.  It sounds really odd to be complaining about kitten affection, but it does make it hard to sew.  I think I might have to switch to binding completely by machine or it’ll be forever before Dad gets to use his quilt.

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WIP: Seams

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Seams

I’m still working on Dad’s Parson Gray “Samurai-ish” quilt. This is the back of a strip of 300 squares that will be the middle section of his quilt.   The finished squares are about 3″.  Lots of pressing involved here, but I’m loving the results.

So far, I have 720 of the 960 squares sewn into larger blocks.  The end is in sight!

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Changed Plans

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X & + Pillows for Dad

These started out as blocks for a quilt for my Dad, but after making just a few of them I changed my mind.  The very things I really liked about them, their dark colors and masculine prints, worked against them in the Japanese X & + blocks.  In the well lit photo it’s harder to tell, but in real life they just looked kind of “muddy”.  I was afraid the “X” and “+” parts would get lost in the darker print patterns and it would just be hard to make anything out.

So now Dad is getting a couple pillows made from those blocks as a teaser of the quilt to come, and I think I’ve decided on a simpler pattern of small patchwork squares.  I think Dad will be happier with it, and I think it will really show off the gorgeous Curious Nature prints from Parson Gray.  Here’s hoping!

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