April Fools – Too cold to fish
When the Project Quilting finished for Season 9 I was sad to say the least. I really loved trying to put together a quilt of some sort in the week of the challenge. Then, last season I noticed there was an off season challenge during the last one – so I made a tree skirt because I needed one.
This 1st off season challenge theme was April Fools, and by chance we had the snowiest April in history and I had just purchased a box of fabric online from somebody de-stashing. The box had 9 yards of fish fabric, I needed to do something with it to get rid of some – besides giving a couple yards to my mother and a couple to my sister. I decided to make a stack & whack quilt with it.
I lined up my fabric, cut up my strips 4” high, stacked them and cut my triangles out. I made my half hexis and arranged them into the quilt. I didn’t feel like making more so when I needed more to make the quilt, I just cut some half hexis out of the fabric itself to use in some places. After putting the rows together I realized I should have put a half triangle on each end (oops) so I had to appliqué my first border fabric under the hexis on the edge-problem solved.
I added another border to make the quilt a little wider by using some more fish fabric. It was sandwiched and I quilted along the lines of the hexis and across the center of each row to finish it off. I also added a ribbon quilting in the first brown border. Then I added a brown bias binding to the whole quilt.
Ended up being 50” X 60” quilt with a cotton batting between the layers. All ready to take to the next craft show. I think it took me about 8-10 hours to make all together so not too hard.
Until I craft again.
