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Finally done. This is a Christmas themed lap quilt made with BASICGREY Evergreen fabric. Love the cross over into fabric for this company.

This is a quilt as you go project, meaning each square is individually pieced and quilted at the same time, then assembled. I added sashing to mask any imperfections where squares met.

It was a fun fabric project, amid all the paper projects.

What a lovely quilt, Pat. You will enjoy getting it out as part of your Christmas decorations each year. I did not know that Basic Grey did fabric collections too.
Kathryn.

Pat your quilt is beautiful!

Very pretty quilt! I'm glad y'all are sharing your fabric arts!!

Oh, I like that, Pat. How wide is your sashing? I was so sorry when I heard BG was going out of the paper business and very happy last year to see some of their designs translated into fabric. I really like the Mon Ami collection.

Thanks for the comments and kind words.

Marianne, the sashing is 1/2 " wide.

So pretty!

that's beautiful Pat!

Love this, Pat. So cheery.

pat-czap wrote:Thanks for the comments and kind words.

Marianne, the sashing is 1/2 " wide.

Wow, that is tiny!

mpizzazz wrote:

pat-czap wrote:Thanks for the comments and kind words.

Marianne, the sashing is 1/2 " wide.

Wow, that is tiny!

Yes, the strip was 1", but you know you gotta have seem allowances. So it's just enough to divert the eye from any imperfections.

Wow! That's really cool!

I keep thinking that quilting could be one of those things that if I ever got into it, I would get obsessive (assuming I had time in my life to be obsessive about anything). But the actual quilting part always intimidated me. I could see myself with hundreds of quilt tops, and nothing ever completed. But a quilt as you go method sounds interesting.

Thanks again ladies. Paper and fabric...both are so much fun.

jfugina wrote:But a quilt as you go method sounds interesting.

Julie, there is minimal quilting at the end. With mine, I added the backing fabric after all the squares were done and sewn together. I did a bit of stitching in the ditch here and there, to adhere the backing fabric. Not brain surgery or too time consuming. All in all, a different way to quilt. I bought a book, Quilt As-You-Go Made Modern by Jera Brandvig... another favorite thing to do , and I was good to go.

pat-czap wrote:Thanks again ladies. Paper and fabric...both are so much fun.

jfugina wrote:But a quilt as you go method sounds interesting.

Julie, there is minimal quilting at the end. With mine, I added the backing fabric after all the squares were done and sewn together. I did a bit of stitching in the ditch here and there, to adhere the backing fabric. Not brain surgery or too time consuming. All in all, a different way to quilt. I bought a book, Quilt As-You-Go Made Modern by Jera Brandvig... another favorite thing to do , and I was good to go.

Cool! Thanks for the book reference. The only quilting I've ever done in my life was for a high school project. So it's been a very long time.. but it's always been something I've wanted to take up again.

Julie...this was my first try at this technique. Easy to do a bit here and there.

With that embroidery machine of yours, you can even make quilt labels...hint, hint.

Good luck in any future endeavors.