This is a quilt that I've been hand appliquéing for quite a while. The top is all finished. I added one star into it, because the theme of our guild's challenge title (the challenge show that was supposed to be spring of 2020, but which has been postponed indefinitely--maybe next year) was A Star Is Born. Any quilt qualifies for the challenge, as long as it has a pieced (not appliquéd) star somewhere in the quilt.
I was using this hand appliquéing as a traveling project, something to take along with me when I'm on the move.
After I got the squares put together, I saw a friend's quilt which I really loved. She had put a narrow white border around the quilt, with a wider pieced border around that.
So I went to my strips box. It was handy because of the strippy star quilt that I made recently. I pulled out all the blue fabrics. I cut some muslin rectangles, 6" wide by about two feet long or so. On to that muslin I sewed strip after strip after strip.
This shows my little iron (beside my sewing machine) where I'm stitching the strips to the muslin. Grab a blue strip, sew RST to the last strip, iron, return to machine, repeat.
This is how the quilt top looks now on my design wall. All the borders have not been sewn together yet.
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| This photo shows only the top portion of the quilt. This is not the whole quilt top |
But what name to give this quilt? I really have no ideas. "Scrappy Elipses"? Doesn't quite roll off one's tongue. I'm really at a loss. I would certainly appreciate any suggestions for a name.
