This 60×80″ quilt, affectionally known as the beast, was my last finish of 2013 as a gift my parents. It is also my largest quilt to date.
I completed it less than 24 hours before we left for KY to spend Christmas at my parents house. I cannot tell you how elated I was to have it finished! I started it Thanksgiving weekend and worked steadily on it until December 21st. The pattern is Sassy Frass by Sweet Jane. I started enlarging the pattern by beginning with 6″ squares to better show of the fabric and it grew from there.
I used Waterfront fabric in the Breeze palette for the blocks and my favorite Platinum Quilter’s Linen for the background. It is backed in navy Kona with a strip of the white bridges running through the center and finished with a scrappy binding featuring the fabric from the center blocks. The center blocks are quilted in navy Aurifil in a wavy pattern and the gray runs are straight line quilted in gray Aurifil.
For the center block quilting, I hand tied off each set of threads at the top and bottom of each line. I wasn’t sure if the backstitching on my machine would lock in the threads enough.
I’m wondering, do you backstitch on open blocks or do you tie off individually?
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I cannot believe you had the patience to tie off that many threads. I just started tying off threads. It’s not so bad. I think for your quilt, I would have quilted a way line to the ditch, stitched in the ditch for a few stitches, then turned the quilt and made a wavy line to the other end of the block. I guess its a trade-off between frequent tying or frequent turning.
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Gorgeous quilt! I love that platinum background. 🙂
Thank you!! I am, now, a huge fan of the quilt. I can’t wait to figure out what to do with the rest of the fabric.
Oh wow, this looks really gorgeous! What a great pattern to show off the fabrics too!
Thank you Joanna! I enlarged the pattern a bit when I received the fabrics. I really wanted to show them off.