Pine Tree Lap Quilt
10-15-2013, 09:24 AM
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Pine Tree Lap Quilt
I started this quilt some 20 so years ago and put it away because I didn't like something about it. I got it out earlier this year determined to fix and quilt it. Well, now I finally got it quilted and have about 10 inches of the hand work of the binding left to sew.
Now this was when I was still learning to quilt, so the trees are all hand pieced! The templates were drawn onto the back of the fabric and you carefully eye-balled the quarter inch seams as you cut them out. Then they were sewn together to make the blocks. It was an all day thing to make one for me. That was before rotary cutters and machine sewing.
Anyway I mention this because I quilted this so heavily because of my fear for the hand piecing coming apart. Not that it is, I just want it to last.
I was talking my to my son on the phone the other day and asked him his favorite colors. I was shocked when he quoted all these colors! What a stroke of luck! So here it is, almost finished for him. Finally! A UFO no more.
Now this was when I was still learning to quilt, so the trees are all hand pieced! The templates were drawn onto the back of the fabric and you carefully eye-balled the quarter inch seams as you cut them out. Then they were sewn together to make the blocks. It was an all day thing to make one for me. That was before rotary cutters and machine sewing.
Anyway I mention this because I quilted this so heavily because of my fear for the hand piecing coming apart. Not that it is, I just want it to last.
I was talking my to my son on the phone the other day and asked him his favorite colors. I was shocked when he quoted all these colors! What a stroke of luck! So here it is, almost finished for him. Finally! A UFO no more.
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