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Completed Postage Stamp

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Remember my postage stamp quilt from PS I Quilt’s Postage Stamp Quilt Along? I’ve finally got this one all wrapped up! I put the borders on the quilt top ages ago, got it all prepped for quilting, and then I must have gotten busy. I remember doing the straight-line quilting in the center and then intending to free-motion quilt the blue border. Of course, I would have needed to free-motion quilt something else to figure out how to do it properly, since the last time I tried I ended up with a knotty mess. So the quilt sat and sat. …

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Finished!

 

We did the math. There are 1,225 little squares in this quilt top. I think I would be completely crazy by now if I had cut them all out individually and pieced this together one square at at time. Hooray for strip piecing! I’m really happy with how this turned out, and really pleased that start-to-finish (or at least this stage of finish – there’s still a possible border and a backing and binding to add, not to mention the actual quilting part) was just a month. The PS I Quilt Quilt Along part was probably crucial for making sure …

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Quilting Along

 

Last week’s strip sets are this week’s strips. Next up: piecing these together into blocks, which are likely going to be next week’s project, despite being part of this week’s instructions. Cutting 16 strip sets into approximately 272 (give or take a few) strips takes a bit longer to do than it does to say. Quandary of the moment: do I put these strips together somewhat randomly or do I try to organize them into thematic blocks? I’m leaning toward the random approach since it feels a little late to be organized. There are a few highly organized strips sets …

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Quilt Along Update

 

Ok. Now I know. When doing a project with pre-cut fabrics, make sure all the pieces are from the same manufacturer. In my quilt along fabrics, the purple strips from Island Batik are about an eighth of an inch wider than the cream strips from Timeless Treasures. Since this would throw off the corner alignments when it comes time to do the piecing, I’m trimming them down as I go. Hopefully this works. And in the future, I’ll stick to one manufacturer at a time since this fiddly stuff is the sort of thing buying pre-cut fabric is supposed to …