Tuesday, June 26, 2018

June's Goal Reached

Earlier this month my goal had been set at getting the last two final stages of the mystery square dance topper sewn together and if time allowed maybe a complete finish and I am pleased to say that this was accomplished.    I did debate for a few days on how to quilt this one and seeing that it was called "square dance" and we did a lot of straight line steps such as "bow to your partner" and "straight down the middle" I wanted to keep the quilting in line with that theme and went with cross hatching all of the nine patch blocks and with the blocks that had "Allemande to the left" I did straight quilting across them if they were pointing down or straight quilting down them if they were going across...confused????  Here it is below


My original thought was to use up some of the left over fabrics to make a patchwork binding but I did find a pretty piece in my stash for the backing and decided that it fitted in well enough with the fabrics to use it as the binding as well.


This one sits proudly on the dining room table.

Linking with OMG for June

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Karen beautiful finish my friend ,well done xx

ellieshomemadehome.blogspot.com said...

It's a lovely mini quilt, great work and I like the colours especially the binding/backing. :)

Maria said...

A very pretty topper.

Laura said...

Well done!

Suzanne said...

Very nice finish!

Karrin Hurd said...

Great finish!

Patty said...

How fun! I love how you incorporated the theme into the quilting. Thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and congrats on your finish.

Frédérique - Quilting Patchwork Appliqué said...

Pretty little quilt, I love your star!

Kathryn T said...

Love your table topper and the backing and binding. Congrats on the finish of the June goal. Kathryn Quilts

KaHolly said...

Well done!

Bethan said...

What a great idea for the quilting. Great finish! x