Afterburn
What conceptualized as a way to use up scraps in October of 2018 finally resulted in this quilt. I had seen a herringbone quilt in IQM catalog and decided to make it. I took all of my red/orange scraps and cut them up into 2" x 4" pieces. Same with some low volume scraps. Once I had a pile I began making the vertical stripes. The stripes go fairly quickly as it's a bunch of partial seams piled one on top of another. Once I had the layout and all the vertical stripes created, then came the tedious task of joining the strips and this meant a whole bunch of partial seams. I approached it one entire vertical stripe at a time and within a few days I had all of them done. This picture of the back is a good testimony to all the seams. It took quite a bit of effort to actually iron them flat. I did use starch. The quilt top had a lot of small pieces in the end. I wanted the quilting to firmly hold them down and hence I decided to get it long armed with an edge to edge pa...
