Woven

Woven is a quilt that I've wanted to make for a long time. The woven idea has intrigued me ever since I first saw it, and I finally decided to make it. After starting, I had a chance to see a pattern showing the process -  which was very different from the way I was making it. 

Using scraps, I made Woven without cutting and sewing together matching fabrics. The white squares and the colored squares on the edges are 3" squares. All other pieces are 3" by 9". 

I built the quilt column by column using partial seams. It was rather labor intensive but fun to do. In the following photo, the vertical pieces on the right have each been sewn to the 3 fabrics on their left. The horizontal pieces are then each joined from the middle of the white to the middle of the vertical piece. The bottom pink vertical piece hasn't been joined horizontally yet. It's a bit complicated but I enjoyed figuring it out and making the quilt.

I quilted this 50" by 70" donation quilt with straight lines using Glide light gray #17543 thread. The straight line quilting was interesting on the long arm even though I have a lock. I think I'm better at straight lines on my domestic machine.

The backing and binding are a bluish turquoise that I had in my stash.

I have started basting my quilts on the long arm before quilting them. I think I get better results, and I can move to different parts of a quilt, if needed, easily. This is the first quilt that I basted with water soluble thread. Since I wash all quilts, I decided it might work well, and it did - the basting just disappeared!

The graduation quilt top is finished! It is on the long arm frame and basted. It looks like I'll have it finished in plenty of time.