As near as I could determine this one hasn’t been a UFO for an extremely long time based on some of my other projects. It was a quilt-along from the National Quilters Circle and the first clue was released in October of 2018. The first photos I have of my work were from March of 2019. I was stalled on the project for quite awhile because I had some mismatched points in the centre and it took awhile to talk myself into taking it apart and fixing it. The top was finished by May of 2020 mainly because it appeared on my 2020 UFO list. When it appeared again on this year’s list I was motivated to get it done.

I used only straight lines for the quilting but I tried to be a bit creative in the lines I stitched while keeping some consistency. I’m pleased with the results and I’m feeling more confident not using any free motion for my quilts. I saw a video for using a stencil to quilt feathers with a walking foot. I tried it for the border but changed my mind; by the time I was ready to do the border I just wanted it done and feathers were going to be too time-consuming.

That did, however, give me the idea of using my quilting rulers to form a pattern. I used chalk to mark the pattern and it was relatively easy to use my walking foot for the quilting. Although I need to measure things out better it certainly worked; best part of the ruler work was that it hardly shows so my pattern placement hardly shows. I’ll be exploring this technique more often.

Although the purple backing isn’t really a good match for the purple on the front it is a nice fabric with lavender stalks in the pattern.

UPDATE: This quilt went to Kathryn