Dusting off the Inkle Loom

My inkle loom has been gathering dust. Literally!  The band shown above had been on the loom for a long time. I warped the band on two different days and accidentally used two different weights of cottolin thread. I left the warp, but wasn't really happy doing the weaving. 

A couple of weeks ago, I decided just to cut it off and start something new. Because the band was dusty, I washed it. And of course, now I love it!  The band isn't very long but it looks great as a belt on this "Winter Outfit" made by the ladies at Bamboletta for this Bamboletta Sitting Friend doll!

Wool and Cottolin woven belt on a doll and doll outfit made by Bamboletta.com

I have a new warp on the inkle loom now, doing a simple pink and white cotton band, just to get my hand back into the feel of weaving again. 

Wait...could that be an Inkle on the back of the loom? (No one is quite sure what an Inkle is, so why not??  He's actually trial of a new little soft doll I'm designing).

I think this pink and white band will make a lovely trim for a doll dress! Using my bands on doll dress could become a thing!!

Friendship Road Quilt

Back in November I designed 2 quilts in the newly upgraded Electric Quilt 8 (EQ8) computer program. "Friendship Road", seen above, was the first quilt I designed in the new program. Here's a link to post about designing this quilt.

I shortened the name, but the quilt is the same!

It's a combination of 2 blocks in the EQ8 Block Library--"Strawberry Smoothie" and "Road to California."  I really like the diagonal line in the quilt from the "Road to California" blocks. They make what is essentially a star quilt more interesting!

Here's the back:

This isn't a Valentine's Day quilt, but I did find it very cheerful working on a pink quilt in January and February!!

Another Waldorf Type Boy Doll, and a Lesson Learned About Tying Heads

I've been wanting a ginger haired boy Waldorf type doll. So I made one!  Here's Russell.  His named even means redhead in old Anglo-Norman!

Russell didn't come together as easily as some of my dolls.  When I tied his head, I didn't anchor the strings around the cheeks. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I found out with Russell that it's wiser to anchor them!

Here are photos of a head (not his) with the cheek strings not anchored on the left and anchored on the right.

When I pulled the tight fabric "skin" over Russell's head, the left cheek string slipped up. I didn't noticed it right away when I could have easily fixed it.  But when I did see it what had happened, I figured it probably wouldn't matter a lot. It did.

By the time I had the doll's head stitched on to the body and the first layer of head was attached at the center top of his head,  a raised ridge had formed across his rather flat left cheek.  There was no way to move the strings back on the finished head. What to do???

I finally took a deep breath and decided to carefully clip and unpick all the stitches holding his head to his body.  I don't recommend doing this. The fabric skin is a knit and can easy develop runs. I was fortunate. No damage occurred. I was able to pull up his head covering just enough to put the strings back in the proper position. Then I anchored them and stitched the head back onto the body. Whew.

Russell now has two chubby cheeks. There is a line across his left cheek where the ridge had been is just barely visible. He's staying with me, so I'm fine with that.

I designed most of his clothes except his sweater is pattern which is the "Heart to Heart Pullover Vest" designed for Heart to Heart Bears based in Shanghai, China. It's available on Ravelry.com. I needed to narrow it bit through the body but the pattern made that adjustment easy to do.  I drew the pattern for his socks but got the idea to form the toe seam from socks sold by Bamboletta.com.

Here are his moccasins.  If found some rawhide laces for crafts at Joann's. They are rated safe for children age 14 and older. Fine for my doll, but not something for a young child. But they sure are cute!!

100% Wool Felt Moccasins with rawhide laces

Scrappy Improv Block Project 2017 Coming Together

Wow!  My Improv Scrappy Block Project had a total of 30 blocks that finish at 12 inches square. i took a set of 9 patch variation blocks from on old project that didn't work out and used them as vertical sashing.

I can't believe this project has turned out to be a queen size quilt!  I put it on a bed to see what the top looked like. Two of the dogs instantly gave it their seal of approval!

I found a sweet light blue 30's floral feedsack reproduction fabric to use for a backing. The quilt is all ready to be basted and quilted! I'll do a final post when it is completed. Hopefully soon!

Here is a better view of the quilt top

Another Quilt made with a Quarter Square Triangle Block Variation.

Here is the other quilt I made using the quarter square triangle variation blocks I made at this years New Year's Day quilt party. It's the quilt the four of us designed together that I showed in the process in my post on January 11, 2018.

We thought it looked like streamers!  So appropriate for a New Year's Day Quilt!

Here are some photos of the back, a flannel with woodland animals, and the quilting mostly a leaf motif and straight lines.  There are also a few flowers in the quilting (not shown below) that look a bit like the flowers printed the background material seen on the right side below.

I really enjoy sitting in my upstairs workroom quilting on these January days. The white and blue grey light from the snow outside is so lovely.  I wish the screen wasn't visible in this photo, but it was about 5 degrees F. the day I snapped the picture--opening the window wasn't an option!!

Quilting on a January day

I have 4 blocks left!  A big pillow cover is in the works!!  A stack of blocks sewed together in a few hours on New Years Day has kept me busy quilting all month!

Quilt Design Using a Variatrion of the Quarter Square Block

As promised last week, here's one of the two quilts I designed using the blocks from a New Year's Day Mystery quilt which I didn't end up making.

This is the second of the two quilts I made. I had a stack of blocks left over after completing the first quilt (to be shown at a later date) so had to come up with a design with what I had. It took a while to get the design balanced but I really like the end result!

This quilt has all the fabrics I had put together as a collection.  They have probably been in my stash for at least 5 years. At the time, I'd just made a quilt using similar colors and didn't choose to make another like it then. But I've always liked the fabrics.

The quilt backing is another vintage stash fabric--a very soft fabric, grey with little white polka dots. Altogether a very satisfying project!

The breeze conveniently flipped over an edge to reveal the backing.  Note the snow drift in front of the fence!!

Y-Quilt Blocks Made at a Fun New Year's Day Sewing Party

Note to web searchers: This post is about Y blocks, a Quarter Square triangle block variation. This is not about Y seams. That's a completely different topic.

It's become a tradition for a group of us to get together on New Year's Day to sew. Each of us makes our own quilt but we use same quilt pattern. Truth be told, we do as much chatting and eating as we do sewing!!  It's a fun day! I highly recommend it!

Sometimes I design project and sometimes we choose one from the internet. This year we chose the Merry Mayhem NYD Mystery.

At least that's what we started to do!  Of the 3 of us sewing together, none of us ended up using the final quilt layout! One friend, who was sewing at home but came over to chat, ended up using using the design but turned it 90 degrees. So much for following directions!! The major blocks in the project were Y blocks, a Quarter Square Triangle Variation, shown above.

I loved the blocks made in these fabrics.  Once I saw them I decided not to go further with the Mystery Quilt directions. I wasn't sure what I was going to use as for layout, but I knew these blocks would work well together.

I ended up designing 2 very different quilt tops with my blocks. The 4 of us worked out the layouts for one of the quilts at the New Year's Day party and the other I created on my design wall.

Here's a sneak peak from the party!

Thinking about possible layouts using the Y blocks

I'm just finishing both quilts up and will post them over the next couple weeks.

In the meantime, here's a link to a tutorial on Craftsy.com for making Quarter Square triangle blocks so you can make some for yourself.  How to Sew a Perfect Quarter Square Triangle.

The Quarter Square Triangle block and it's variations are very versatile and can create lots of exciting patterns. So much fun!

Sewing a Fleece Throw without a Serger

I like fleece throws--they are so warm and cozy.  Stores often have fleece yardage on sale at 50% off.  1 & 1/2 yards of fleece is perfect for a lap throw.  But until recently, I've never had any success at sewing them on my domestic machine. The seams rolled and buckled. The reason is that fleece is a really a stretchy knit fabric.

Sergers do work but it is possible to sew a great seam on a regular sewing machine too. Here's what I do.

• Put a walking foot on the sewing machine. The walking foot creates a balanced feed on the top as well as the bottom of the fabric, avoiding stretching it.
• Choose a stitch recommended in your machine's manual for stretch fabrics. I use the "jersey stitch" on my Bernina
• Fold the raw edge over to the back side of the fleece, wrong sides are together.  1/2" fold  puts the raw edge on the inner left edge of the walking foot and the folded edge on the outer right edge of the walking foot. I use the walking foot as a guide so I don't need to mark or pin the fleece
• Sew the seam on one side of the throw. You can either sew the entire seam to the end of the fabric or stop 1/2 inch from the end, fold over the seam on the next side, turn with the needle down and continue sewing.  I find I get a neater fold if I sew all the way to the edge and then fold over the next side.
• Let the walking foot feed the fleece under the needle. Don't pull or push the fabric which will stretch the fleece
• Sew at a steady rate to create an even design in the stitching

In middle row of photos above, the seam on thewrong side of the throw is on the left and the seam on the front side is on the right.

Using a walking foot and a stretch stitch is a fast, easy, no-fuss way to finish fleece for a throw! 

Improv Scrappy Block Project 2017

2017 is coming to and end and so is my Scrappy Block Project 2017.  My goal was to make at least 2 blocks a month for a year. I ended up with 30!

Other than using scraps and left over components of quilt blocks, I really didn't initially have a plan for these 12 inch blocks. As time went on, I started putting an animal or other feature fabric somewhere in each block. Some months I also added plain white blocks which I really liked. I wish I had done that more consistently. In this busy quilt, those white patches offer a resting place for the eyes.

At 5 block wide and 6 blocks long, quilt will be long enough but I want it a bit wider.  I found some orphan blocks from a project that just didn't work and there are enough blocks to add sashings between the vertical rows. The orphan are a bit bold, but I like them!  I'll post a photo of the completed quilt sometime in 2018!

So that wraps of this year long project.  And what happens when a project is done?  A party of course!!  (Though I had to do some canine management to prevent the party from starting before I had all the photos I needed for this post)!

Dog Party!  Hazel and Tipper playing among the blocks

Happy New Year!!

Happy Holidays!

Besides sewing presents, I've done a little knitting.  This cute little knit polar bear is fun little ornament. Mine is 2 1/2 inches.  The bear's head flips back and reveals a little pocket made in the bear's body.  Just right to hide a little note or a treasure. One of the bears I knit up is part of a Christmas Day Treasure Hunt.

The bear is also just the right size for a pocket book for a Bamboletta Cuddle Doll!  Tulip (my "borrower--she is wearing a smaller doll's socks and a bigger doll's leggings) immediately claimed the second one I made as her own!

Tulip, a Bamboletta Cuddle Doll, with the Polar Bear Pouch

The "Polar Bear Pouch" is the creation of Barbara Prime who publishes patterns as Fuzzy Mitten's. This pattern is available, free, on Ravelry.com. Barbara designs delightful knit animals and her patterns are easy to follow.

Enjoy your time with friends and family over the next few weeks!

Friends on the Road Quilt

I planning to make both quilts I just designed in Electric Quilt 8.  I've started work on the first quilt which I'm calling "Friends on the Road."  The two blocks are "Road to California" on the left and "Strawberry Smootie" on the right. But blocks are in EQ8's block library.

I'm using batiks and Kona® cotton white. The "Road to California" goes together quickly. The "Strawberry Smoothie" block is more intricate. So far I've only made these two trial blocks.

The test blocks work, so I'm set to sew! But with the holidays here, it might be a while before I have more to show!

Hope you are all enjoying a bit of Holiday sewing!

Electric Quilt 8: Experimenting with Foundation Piecing in the New Upgrade

In my last post I used the new upgrade of Electric Quilt (EQ8) to make a quilt layout plugging blocks from EQ's Block Library into a grid. That was lots of fun.  But this week I decided to try creating an original design using EasyDraw Block in the program that would be assembled with foundation piecing, also known as paper piecing.  In foundation piecing, the block design is printed on paper and the fabric is sewn onto the design on the paper. When the quilt is finished, the paper is torn away, just leaving the fabric quilt top.

It took me a couple tries to get a workable design since I don't usually do foundation piecing.  My first design would have been a piecing nightmare--even with foundation piecing. The good thing was that was crystal clear when EQ8 set up the design to be printed on the foundation paper. Even though that design wasn't going to work, I was glad to know that early on in the progress and was able to redirect myself to a revised design that was usable.

Here's my 2nd block and the quilt it would make.  Those solid blocks were just two intense. So I decided to tweak it a bit.

I went back to EasyDraw Block and added a couple lines and created a smaller square with a border in place of the solid square. Here's what that block and two quilts design options using that it look like. EQ8 has number of functions where you can let the computer change things up for you. I changed it up using the "Symmetry" tab. It's like having a design wall that moves all the blocks around for you! I prefer the quilt on the left, but it was fun to see the options.

Next I changed the color in one of pair of smaller blocks. That added some more interest. Here are some of the design options suggested by the "Symmetry" function.

My final design is at the top of the page.  That was created with the block below, which has a narrower border. It was very easy to modify these blocks. While the Undo arrow probably would have done the job for me, I chose the Pick tool (a diagonal arrow) to pick the line I wanted, deleted that and drew the new line. It's really quick and it works well for me. I then used the "Symmetry" function again with this final design and let the computer flip the blocks on the virtual design wall until I found the design I liked best.

This was a really interesting project and I got better acquainted with EQ8 doing it.  I'm still finding my way around EQ8, but really appreciate a nimbleness and ease of use in this new upgrade.  I think the upgrade is definitely worth doing.

Electric Quilt 8: Experimenting with the new Upgrade

I've been using Electric Quilt (EQ), a computerized quilt designing program, now for a number of years. Because I only use it sporadically, I am by no means an expert. But when EQ7 was recently upgraded to EQ8, I knew this upgrade was on my "need to have" list.

I initially learned EQ6 on a PC.  But when they released a version of EQ7 that was Apple compatible I made the switch.  Using EQ on Apple computer, both laptops and desk computers, has worked well for me.

EQ8 is set up a bit differently than EQ7 and some of the tools have new names. The toolbar with blocks chosen for the quilt, colors, and fabric choices that used to be on the right side of the screen is now above the screen on the left side and the tools open in a box next to the work area.

It looks like this program has a lot more versatility for creating your own blocks and quilts. But so far, I have only used a basic layout, adding blocks from EQ8's block library. Setting up a layout was straightforward, as was adding and changing borders from the grids available in the program.

For the quilt above I used the block "Strawberry Smoothie" (left below) and "Road to California"  (right below). It was really easy to plug blocks into layout grid, change blocks in the layout and rotate them to different positions. I changed colors used in the library blocks to the colorway of my choice. You can also upload scanned pictures of fabric if you want to see the actual quilt you are designing. Here are the two blocks. It's OK to share these blocks...EQ8's software is copyrighted but the blocks are not.

I've had a bit of "where is that tool?" to deal with, but overall, I'm really enjoying using the EQ8 Upgrade. I think the next thing I'll try is designing my own blocks. That's something I did often in EQ7. It will be fun to see how it works in EQ8.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is the traditional time of year to count our blessings, but every day is a good day to be grateful! 

                    Happy Thanksgiving!

Deconstructing a Quilt Panel: Part 2

In my last post, I showed a commercial quilt panel with a winter dog motif and yardage from my Spoonflower.com site, "StarPower" and talked about deconstructing the quilt panel and creating something new.

Here's the finished quilt, "Winter Pups".  

I added fussy cut stars, strips from my stash of of left over 2 1/2 inch strips, removed printed words I didn't want, and rearranged the sections of the printed quilt panel.  Here's a photo of the original panel for comparison.

The original quilt panel

The quilting was lots of fun.  I did some echo quilting around the designs from the quilt panel, some straight walking foot quilting and swirls around the 8 pointed stars. The back is the "StarPower" fabric.

The finished quilt is a bit larger than the original panel, brighter, just happy and lots of fun!

Decontructing a Quilt Panel: Part 1

A friend recently gave me a Christmas quilt panel commenting, "This panel just says "Judy."  It does! It's the dog thing!  Black Labs are dear to my heart and that the Golden retrievers in the panel are pretty cute too!  I especially like the Golden wearing that pink ski hat!

On the right is a photo of one of my fabric surface designs "StarPower"  that I had printed at Spoonflower.com.  I had intended to use this fabric to make a whole cloth quilt, but don't the colors and the stars look perfect with this panel?

Since I don't love all the graphics in the Christmas dog panel, so I'm going to deconstruct it and add some fussy cut 8 pointed stars to make a little Christmas quilt!  Next week I'll show what I've done!

The Boys! Waldorf Type Dolls

Happy November!   Today's post is a picture gallery of boy dolls. I'd been thinking about a Waldorf type boy doll that had a mix of blonde curls and straight hair.  I only make a few Waldorf Type dolls* a year. As the weather changed from summer to fall and making a doll with wool hair that is has wool stuffing seemed more doable, I made a pair of Waldorf type boys.

Here's Davey, the blonde boy.  I love the Farmer's Market design in the fabric I used for his shirt!  That's a crab apple tree, loaded with fruit, in the background.

Davey, a Waldorf Type Doll

Here are a few more pictures.  The pocket on the back of his cords is a new addition to my pants pattern.  I had fun up-cycling a old SmartWool® sock to make a pair him a pair of striped wool socks!  The felt moccasins and the flannel PJs are two new patterns I designed for these boys.

Here's the brunette boy I made at the same time.

The Brunette boy

The side part is something new I tried.  The hair might be a bit too long and floppy, but it is cute!

I drawn all the patterns for my dolls as well as drafting patterns for their clothes.  This boy pattern seems to work particularly well. These two little Dudes just make me smile!!

* Waldorf Type dolls are made with knit cotton fabric for skin and have wool roving or batting for stuffing. Their round heads are make of wool rolled into a ball and shaped with a covering of knit stockinette and string before being finally getting covered with the knit cotton skin.  They can be very simple or elaborately detailed. All the dolls are handmade and one-of-a-kind.

Fussy Cut Medallion Quilt Step-by-Step: Polar Medallion Quilt Completed, Medallion Quilt Books

Here it is!  The completed "Polar Medallion Quilt".   I love all the colors so I particularly enjoyed working on this quilt!

And it was a joy to quilt. I did some straight line quilting, some echo quilting, a bit of embroidery on one of the solid concentric inner borders and I used my favorite Bernina #4 stitch in the last border.

Here's the back of this quilt. You can see the quilting much more clearly on this side as well as the structure of the medallion.

Polar Medallion Quilt--back side

I hope you enjoyed following along with the making of this quilt. If you make one for yourself, please let me know! 

In my last post, I mentioned that I would tell you about two medallion quilt books. One is available now, the other is scheduled for release 12/26/2017.

The Modern Medallion Workbook by Janice Zeller Ryan and Beth Vassalo was published by Stash Books in 2015.   The book has a couple relatively simple medallion quilts but most of the quilts are complex, visually very exciting and look fairly challenging to make.  I really like the quilt shown on the right side of the book's cover shown above.  It looks like a party! The round flying geese medallion shown in the lower left corner above is incredible. It's the center medallion of a bright, fun quilt.  It's an amazing book, but not one for a beginner quilter.

The book coming out in December is being published by Lucky Spool. Make Your Own Medallion: Mix + Match Block and Borders to Build Your Quilt From the Center Out was written by Erin Burke Harris.  The preview states she has created a variety of borders that can be made in 3 widths, as well as 6 center medallions that are ready for use. She has done all the math for the borders! Quilt Math is what makes designing a medallion quilt challenging. Here is a link to some page spreads photos from the book on the Lucky Spool website.  I'm so intrigued. I can't wait to see this book!

I hope I've sparked your interest in medallion quilts and that you'll try making one at some point. They are fun to sew and make beautiful and interesting quilts.

Fussy Cut Medallion Quilt Step-by-Step: Finishing the Quilt Top

In the previous 3 posts there are instructions for building this crib/lap size medallion quilt. In today's post, the quilt top as I've made it, will be finished. But feel free to continue adding to the quilt if you want to make it bigger!

Step 9: Adding plain border strips

I add plain borders every couple rounds as accents or to give the eye a place to rest since this is a busy pattern.

• Cut (2) 34 x 2 1/2 inch strips from a solid color
• Cut (2) 38 x 2 1/2 inch strips from the same color
• Sew 38 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch strips to the sides of the quilt. Press.
• Sew the 34 x 2 1/2 inch strips to the top and bottom of the quilt.

Step 10: Narrow Piano Key borders

Use a variety of the jelly roll strips for this step

• For the side strips, Cut (40) 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 rectangles from the jelly roll strips
• Cut (2) 3 1/2 tall x 3 3/4 wide spacer blocks from the sidestrip sets. I used fussy cut patches for these spacer blocks.
• For the top and bottom strip Cut (32) 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 rectangles
• Cut (2) 3 1/2 tall x 4 inches wide spacer blocks. As for the sides, I fussy cut these patches from the novelty fabric
• Fussy cut 4 corner blocks, 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches from the novelty fabric.
• For the sides, sew together (4) strip sets of 10 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch patches. Note: Sew the patches together on the longer 3 1/2 inch sides.
• Sew one 10 patch strip to the side spacer block, 3 1/2 x 3 3/4. Then attach a second 10 patch strip

• For the top and bottom strips, sew together (8) 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch patches. Make (4) of these 8 patch strips.
• For the top strip, Sew a 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch fussy cut corner block to an 8 patch strip. Attach the 3 1/2 x 4 inch spacer block. Attach another 8 patch strip and a final 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch corner fussy cut patch.
  Repeat for the bottom strip. If your fussy cut patches have directional designs make sure you check to make sure the design will be upright in the strips.

The finished Polar Medallion Quilt Top

Step 11: Final Solid Border Strips

• Cut (2) 2 1/2 x width of fabric from contrasting solid fabric. 
• Sew one to the top of the quilt and one to the bottom.
• Cut (3) 2 1/2 x width of fabric from the contrasting solid.  Sew these 3 strips together either straight or on the diagonal.  Sew to one side of the quilt. Then cut and sew the left over strip to the other side of the quilt.
• For greater accuracy in cutting, measure the length and width of the quilt in the center of quilt rather from the ends or sides. Use those measurements from the middle of the quilt side and top to cut the last border strips.

That's the completed Polar Medallion Quilt top!  If you've been using these directions to make a similar quilt, I hope you had fun. Please let me know if you find errors in the instructions.

In my final Polar Post, next week, I'll show my finished quilt and give some recommendations for books about Medallion quilts.

Fussy Cut Medallion Quilt Step-by-Step: From Square to Rectangular

Two weeks ago I started posting step-by-step instructions for making a fussy cut medallion quilt. Up until now, the same strips sets were added to each side of the quilt. There is one more border to add, working in the round. Then the quilt will morph from the traditional square quilt to a rectangular quilt.

Step 6: Strips, last step where the same strip sets are added to all 4 sides.

• Cut (2) 24 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch strips from a solid color with good contrast
• Cut (2) 26 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch strips from a solid color with good contrast
• Sew the 24 1/2 inch strips to the 2 sides of the quilt.
• Sew the 26 1/2 inch strips to the top and bottom of the quilt.
• The quilt should now measure 26 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches square. THIS IS THE LAST SQUARE STEP.

Quilt with strip sets added only to top and bottom changing the quilt to a rectangle.

Step 7: Adding blocks to top and bottom of the quilt

• Choose a quilt block that you like and that will be 6 1/2 inches UNFINISHED. (I found the pattern for this block, "Vintage Propellers" at ConnectingThreads.com).
• Make (6) 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 (unfinished) blocks
• Cut (4) 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 spacer blocks from one of the patterned fabrics
• Sew two strips sets: 1 quilt block, one spacer block, 1 quilt block, one spacer block, 1 quilt block.
• Sew one strip set to the top of the quilt and one to the bottom of the quilt.
• The quilt is now 26 x 38 inches.

Adding skinny side strips with fussy cut patches

Step 8: Adding just side strips with embedded fussy cut patches

•  Cut (4) 6 x 2 1/2 inch strips from a patterned fabric
•  Fussy cut (4) patches 2 1/2 inches wide and as tall as needed for the design.
•  Because my fussy cut patches were a variety of heights, you'll need to do a bit of your own quilt math to cut this strip. From the patternedfabric, cut (2) 2 1/2 inch x length needed to make a completed 26 inch strip set when a fussy cut patch is attached to the top and bottom of this strip. Make sure to allow for the quarter inch seam allowances when cutting this spacer strip.
• Sew one fussy cut patch set to each end of the spacer cut in the previous step.
• Sew one 6 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch strip cut from patterned fabric to the top and bottom of each of these fussy cut strip sets.
• The quilt should now measure 30 x 38 inches.

In the final post next week, the quilt top will be completed.