For February I am working on the Sunshine Garden Quilt – a kit designed by Darlene Zimmerman, for my one month goal over at Elm St Quilts. It is a quilt for one of my sisters. I am going to have to enlarge it a little to fit her bed, so will do that in the borders I hope.
Here are the blocks I was making in January
I have since added the sashing and basted it together, with the help of my trusty fan!
And now I have started to quilt it.
I am using for the first time Marti Michell’s way of using encased seams to add the border later on as this would be too large to quilt on my Bernina home sewing machine. A little nervous about that – but nothing ventured, nothing gained. The piece I am quilting at present is about 57″ by 68″. Getting the middle quilted is easier this way.
So my goal for February is to take this as far as I can. Goal will be achieved if I advance further than I am now!
Steps I hope to get done, however quilting the middle will be good. Working on starting the borders will also be included in the goal, even if I get two sides placed on.
- Quilt the middle
- Add the side borders. (I still have some borders I need to piece as part of the enlarging.)