I had a list going of various UFOs I wanted to revisit and finish up. Halloween Figs had all the blocks finished and sewn together, but then I put the project away because all those borders seemed like a lot. Well, I bit the bullet and dived in and started putting on all those borders. There are five of them. A narrow background, a narrow black, a complicated-looking pieced one, another wider black one, and finally, a light background print that brings together all the colors in the blocks.
I had enough orange print to make the outer border, but the light background print was so perfect I had to order it. It should get here in a week or so, and I will finish up this quilt.
The first two narrow borders were a cinch, but that pieced border took nearly all day. The piecing wasn’t difficult. It was just black snowball corners attached to orange rectangles. When the units are assembled into the border, it forms a scalloped look. I called it “overly complicated”, but now that it is on the quilt top I absolutely love the effect.
When I have a ton of this type of snowball/stitch-and-flip corners, I like to use my Easy Angle guide. I just tape it onto the surface of my machine and sew from corner to corner without marking. There are tons of ways to do this type of unit, including various tools like Doug Leko’s Simple Folded Corner ruler, but the Easy Angle is my long-time favorite. Sadly, it is no longer made. Lori Holt has something very similar called Seams So Easy that you might want to check out. It is such a time-saver not to have to mark 120 little triangles. Especially black ones!
While I was sorting through UFO project boxes, I rediscovered three smaller tubs of Fig Tree Halloween fabric that I had set aside for three different future Halloween projects. Since I hadn’t started any of these projects, I consolidated all my Fig Tree Halloween fabrics into one larger tub. Instant Halloween fabric stash. I had loads of fabric, from scraps, fat quarters, and larger cuts for backgrounds and borders. Joanna Figueroa comes out with a new Halloween collection about every other year, and clearly I have been loyal about buying them.
We had a very nice birthday celebration for Dennis. It was a quiet day, with a nice chatty phone call from Ahren to break it up. Then we had champagne out on the back porch before going out to dinner, and sat out there again when we got home and finished up the bottle! Sunday, our son-in-law Ryan invited us over for a pizza party, and I offered to make dessert. What better offering than Fruit Pizza! I will get a photo and share it with you. It’s an easy summer dessert using lots of fresh fruit.
I hope you had a wonderful weekend, too.
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Oh wow! I like the top. All those blocks are so pretty.
I use the tape that goes in front of the needle. The worst part is making sure i align it correctly, but I get very good results.