Geese all round Ta Da!

At long last I've finished this quilt! It's only been about 3 years. It started life as my block for the disastrous Star quilting bee. The lovely fabric I sent out disappeared into the ether never to be seen again. I ended up with only a few blocks, so tried again a couple of years later with the lovely bumbling honeys quilt bee. Fortunately, they turned up trumps and I ended up with 27 blocks. I really couldn't be bothered to make any more as I'd lost the momentum, so went with a 5 x5 block arrangement, thinking I could always add a border. In the end, I just left it as it was, without the border.

 

The back I made with left over pieces from previous quilts, but I think it works well.

 

 

 

The blocks were difficult to piece together because of the bias edges and didn't line up as well as I had hoped, so I chose to do some very dense quilting to compensate.

 

 

It was great practice for my FMQ skills. I tried different filler designs in each 'star' and straight line quilting in the ' alternative' blocks.

 

 

 

I bound it in a dark navy to pick up the navy in the blocks. No surprise that the quilt is in my favourite blues and greens.

 

 

 





 

 

I haven't decided what to do with it yet. It's quite small but with pretty colours, so I'll think about it for a while.

 

Quilt Stats

 

Size : 58 x 58 inches

 

Design: Geese all round by quilters cache.

 

Top: Kona white background with assorted blues and greens

 

Back: Pieced extra wide Riley Blake spots and zigzag in aqua

 

Batting: 100% cotton from Fabric Freedom

 

Binding: A mixture of Sailaway plans in navy by Windham fabrics and Cookie book navy ghost saltines by Kimberly Kight for Cotton and Steel

 

Quilted with Glide in grey on top and Wonderfil in white on bottom

 

 

This is my second finish of FAL Q1  ( my original list is here)