What a day! Two weeks ago I did my last stitch and finished my year quilt. Over the year I created a new block month by month, added the strips and quilted it.
Lets together look back:
One year ago I offered you my idea of a year’s quilt.
All my blog posts regarding this project you can recall here. Let us have a look at our blocks.
All blocks have the house in common. And our birdie.
We started in July with summer time motifs, like flower pot and the bunting at the house.
In August we had fresh wind in our laundry.
September came with sun flowers:
The October saw pumpkin and a first warm hat:
The November was windy of course with colored leaves in the air:
December ? Guess!
The month January is the month of snowmen:
While February is month of the loving:
The March came with Easter eggs:
Tulips in April:
In May temperatures raised so we could got out for a first sailing.
And now the very last block is ready.
June is the month of starwberries. Now it is the time to taste them from the bed, or at a cake or dessert. I don’t know any other fruit that is such tasty and flavorful.
That’s why our last block is full with this fruit.:
Strawberries in the basket…
…there is a strawberry chain…
…and they are near the house.
So that it is, the last block.
Now it is time to combine all blocks.
Do you remember? I wanted to use the „Quilt As You Go“ – method, in short QAYG.
The big pro in this method is that you don’t have to handle the whole big, heavy quilt through the sewing machine. Totally relaxed we add batting and back side fabric to every single block only and quilt this.
This is a handy way, easy to follow not only for quilting beginners. The ready blocks will be combined later using QAYG.
I put together a detailled instruction with lots of pictures explaining every single step.
The instruction explains how you can even enlarge your quilt by adding stripes. The below example is 1.4m x 1.8m. Large enough to nestle down in it.
Here it comes:
I combined the blocks with yellow stripes and the green outer stripes add calm to it.
Since I used different back side colors the quilt is even colorful from the back.
At the moment the quilt found it’s place in the living room. Maybe it will be hanged in the staircase. Therefore I will add a tunnel on the back for a long, thin bar. This makes it hang evenly.
What will you do with your quilts?
I am very keen to see your quilts. Please send your pictures and let me add them to our Pinterest-Galerie.
I hope you loved this project like I did.
Enjoy the last block and have a nice weekend.
Liebe Grüße
Eure
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