Flannel Quilt

Here is the Flannel quilt with the border issues.  It's a very nice quilt and uses a useful technique for using up bits of scrap fabric and it all comes together nicely in the body of this quilt.  It's just shows that you should measure the body of your quilt before adding any borders, and if you plan on adding several borders it's Very Important to measure.

Flannel customer quilt

Measure your borders, please

I received this quilt top couple of days ago. Its a flannel quilt top with cotton backing. She had several borders around the center to get it the size she wanted, but she strip piece all the borders. And major distortion with each one. Yikes! Tried to talk her into taking the top back to fix it. She said she was tired of looking at it. And she just wanted it finished. So I quilted it the best I could... oh what a mess... but it sure has plenty of character.

 

Too much fabric for borders

Log cabin all finished

Wow! The top is all finished. I found this great purple fabric in my stash for the borders. I really enjoyed making this quilt. The 3-D geese and the log cabin designs are 2 firsts for me. I never made a log cabin quilt, nor had I ever incorporated 3-D elements in a quilt before either. Now the long process of deciding what design to quilt on it. So many choices... makes it hard to decide.

Flying Geese in a Log Cabin Quilt

I finally got the main body and the inner border done. Now on to the outer border... go shopping or dive into fabric stash? Hmmm? A little of both would be nice. I guess the stash should come first.

I made 49 bloocks. It original patter called for 36 block with a 3" inner border and an 8" outer border. I didn't like those dimentions. So I changed the inner border to 2" and the outer border to 6". Then the quilt seemed a bit small, so I added 13 more blocks. The finished quilt will be a bit larger than the original.

Flying Geese in a Log Cabin.

This is my first post for my new Blog. I hope you will find the information here inspirational and interesting.

A single block from 'Flying Geese in a Log Cabin' quilt for a quilt class I took with Edith Dyke in April 2013. There were a few options for adding the 'geese' to the log cabin block. I chose the 3-D look. You can also set the geese in the corners which would look great too. However, I had never made a log cabin block, or made a 3 dimensional quilt either. So I decided to go for a couple of firsts in one quilt. The third option for the 'geese' was to sew them down after the block was finished; either as is, or do a little fabric folding and turn the edges up for more of an arrow look. I have not fully decided on which I will do once the quilt is completed. Though the 'geese' will be 3-D, but I doubt I will stitch them down at all.