I'm definately on the home straight now, with my Winter Playground quilt, designed by Lynette Anderson Designs. Finally it's time for the borders to be made - and this involves lots of cutting and stitching tiny squares together, for three "inserts" for the borders. Although I'd originally purchased a starter pack of fabrics when I bought the set patterns back in 2018, I've added lots of my own "Lynette" fabrics that I've accumulated over several years. to give it a better variety...
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...these pieced borders give a bit more interest to the quilt than just using one fabric, and they're inserted on just three sides of the quilt. The fabric for the plain part of the border is a pretty star print, that is also one of Lynette's fabrics...
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...there are a few wool appliqued starts on the original pattern, but I'm going to stitch these star shaped buttons on instead. These were purchased online from Minerva and will be sdtitched in place once the quilting is finished - I've just laid them in place for the photoshoot...
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...and here's the quilt top, layered up with wadding and backing fabric. The fabric is a feature print from Lynette's Winter Playground collection, and the wadding is a bamboo and cotton mix. The layers have been spray basted with 505 spray. I've been deliberating over the quilting ever since I started this project, and finally decided to machine quilt it. Hopefully I'll manage to get this completed before Christmas, so I can have it on display, along with my other festive wall hangings.
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