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 pattern. I usually go to my trusty friend Jana Royal for her long arm services. I picked a variation of the Baptist Fan pattern and love how it turned out. For the back, I used a bunch of Denyse Schmidt prints I had purchased from Joann's early on in my quilting journey.

The yellow stripped binding fabric gave just the right finish to the quilt. Completed in July of 2024. It was a really nice day here in the Pacific Northwest when I took pictures of the quilt and my Jasmine was in full bloom.