This month’s sewing was made as an online Valentine challenge and is a smallish (40” square) quilt for Project Linus.
With feline assistance, I gathered my fabrics and starting sewing during the weekend of Valentine’s day.
The quilt is made from 16 string-pieced squares, some a single colour and some two-coloured. Squares and HST were made using string piecing on to a paper backing, a technique I’d not tried before. The strings were cut from FQs of Liberty quilting cotton and the cream background is from low volume fabrics that I have been adding to my stash over several months. I didn’t get my calculations quite right when working out what size strings to cut so I had to insert narrow strings to get full coverage.
I quilted it with a free motion meander with heart shaped motifs. The pink thread I used for the heart was too good a match for some of the strings and I struggled to see the quilting in places.
The backing and binding fabrics were from stash and the binding is machine stitched as I think it is more suitable for a quilt that hopefully will get lots of use and washing.
I’m quite pleased to have used some more of my Liberty rather than having it sit unused in my Stash.
