I finished another quilt top today. This one is made with a "Hearty Good Wishes" layer cake. It actually doesn't use all of the layer cake squares, even though it uses well more than 42 10-inch squares. For one, the layer cake was not equally divided between blue fabrics and off-white fabrics, so I added 3 extra 10-inch squares in off-whites. Next, the main body of the quilt only needed 40 10-inch squares, so I took out some of the extra blue 10-inch squares. The setting triangles are also 10-inch squares, cut in half diagonally, but I wanted them to all be the same fabric. So in the end, I left out some of the duplicate blue fabrics, but all the fabrics in the line are represented.
The quilt top ended up being 68-1/2 inches square. The hardest part (aside from deciding what pattern to use in the first place) was knowing what size to cut the borders. I think it ended up okay, but having the setting triangles with the bias to the outside is not the best idea. I measures several places across the quilt and came up with an average, but there was a good bit of easing to do to rein in those bias edges. They looked pretty wavy before I added the border. Hopefully it will quilt out pretty flat. Tomorrow it is headed to the quilt shoppe to get quilted.
3 comments:
Which Ocean Waves pattern did you use? I found several but none that was the same as yours. Your quilt top came out great!
I didn't actually have a pattern. I just scaled up an oceans waves block that was in a book of quilt block patterns. The book was Better Homes and Gardens 501 Quilt Blocks.
Thank you for your help and comment. I will look for the book you mentioned.
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