Joining Up

Ha ha.. no, I am not going in the military, nor am I about to become part of a cult. I just thought I would show you a little bit about where the quilt as you go quilt is going. (was that as confusing to read as it was to type?)

Just to see how it works, I joined up two of the big old blocks with the sashing. Since this is a somewhat scrappy quilt anyway, I am going to use strips that I have trimmed off of various projects to use as the sashing; although I may cut some larger pieces and have repeated fabrics in the joining too.

I haven't really discussed the BACKS of the blocks. I am using FQs trimmed to size (which tends to leave me a sashing strip!) for the backs. I think the back of this quilt will be as fun to look at as the front. The first picture show both the front AND the back of the two joined blocks. What you see between the two is just what was under it when I took the picture. I was lazy and didn't edit that out. I love the bright blue and yellow "squares" with the pink (although it looks red in this picture) strip between them.




This smaller picture is just to show a little detail of the join. I opted to not do a deco stitch over the finished seam and to only do it on the one where it actually fastens down the sashing.



In the book she used many different decorative stitches to do attach this seam. I just used the zigzag for this one. I am planning to do them with several different deco stitches. But, I love the zigzag with this multicolored thread. I also have some bright aqua thread and some red that will be used for some of the other seams. I think I could have just done a straight stitch and it would have worked perfectly. But the deco stitching adds some pizazz to the quilt. I like a little eye candy.

This is going to be a very fun quilt to make. Plus when I get it all joined there is just the binding to sew on and it is ready to use. How awesome is that?