Flowers Around the Cabin Quilt

I finally got that set of log cabin blocks sewn together.  It took two weekends, instead of one.  I always expect to get more finished than is possible.  Always optimistic, I guess.

Here it is with just the inside borders:

I tried to bring the light and dark out into the triangle border, too.  I am not sure I succeeded at that.  Meh.

I really need to get a design wall.  At the moment, I make my husband or son hold the quilt while I snap a few pictures.  I am always too slow.  This is serious arm torture.  Mwhahahaha!  (I had a delightful design wall, but the cat shredded it.  That is another story for another day.)

Here it is again with a final, wide outside border. The picture washes out the lovely marbled green, gold, and white floral.

  

I have one final step before I start to quilt.  I am going to add a few brightly colored applique flowers and vines to add some soft flowing line to all these straight lines and hard geometric shapes.  That will probably take a week...or two...or who knows how long.  I am going to get that started in after school quilting today.

I am also going to try something new!

Some idiot...yes, I said idiot...left the laminator on.  Not just on, but running lamination film out the back.  It laminated lots of nothing.  Now we have a large roll of plastic sheeting that is fused together.  It is good for drawing and tracing.  I am going to lay some plastic on a different quilt top and draw on some quilting as practice before I put it on the quilt machine.  (Her name is Bertha.  Do you name your machines?  I do.  It is a sickness, my husband tells me.)

Life is an adventure.  I will let you know in the next post how the applique is going and how quilting practice on plastic is working for me.

Have a great sewing day!

Later,

Lorrie