Sarah's Quilt

Finished in time for her birthday here is Sarah's Quilt...

This has been a big project; as many of you know it's a lot of work making a queen size quilt(this one 90 x 90"). This quilt is made up of two blocks(shown below) alternating. I wanted to use the "puss in the corner" block since this was a quilt about cats and I liked the simplicity of the design since my fabrics were busy.

This is also the second largest quilt that I have attempted to quilt on my home machine. I stumbled upon a tip to not sew in the ditch but instead about ¼" away and this worked wonderfully for me. I used a foot that was symmetrical on both sides so no matter which way I went on either side of my ditches my stitches were the same distance apart from my fabric seams.

Here's a shot of me quilting.

This is by far the best quilting job I have ever done by machine; I had virtually no puckers.

I tried taking the best pictures I could, really hard to photograph such a large quilt and try to get some nice natural light. It's amazing what a yellowed glow you'll get from just turning on your ceiling light and how much brighter your whites are when you turn off your lights and use the natural light from outside.

 As you may notice my backing is peiced with all the leftovers from the top of the quilt.

Thanks for reading♥ Olivia