There has been a flurry of activity around here this past week.

The Jelly Roll quilt is layered and basted. My wonderful basting spray presented some challenges for me this time – mostly as a result of the quilt backing.

Because I have limited fabric, the backing is only a couple of inches larger than the top, when I am used to having the backing be more like 4 inches larger.

In addition, the backing has a kind of Rail Fence / parquet design, and I wanted to square it up as much as possible.

Now that it’s all ready for machine quilting, I’ll be checking out possible designs.

Block 9 from "Creative Two-Block Quilts" Book

In addition, since I chose a quilt from the Creative Two-Block Quilts book, I found time to sew one of the blocks together – since all of the fabric was cut. It looks great, and I’m glad I finished one block as a kind of test block. I’ll be trimming some fabric at one stage of the construction – before the block gets sewn together.

If I hadn’t completed one block, I would have ended up with more bulk in the center on all of the blocks in the quilt – slightly disappointing outcome; thankfully not a disaster.

Plus, it’s time for our Annual How to Quilt Survey. It will take just a minute or two to complete, and we love to hear how we can serve your quilting needs better. The link is on the page, so please take a few minutes to fill it out.

You’ll see the progress on both of those quilts in this week’s news.

In addition, you’ll see:

  • Updates from Penny
  • Special Deal for TheQuiltingCoach.com
  • A Little Quilting Vocabulary
  • A Quilt Block from Creative Two-Block Quilts
  • Penny’s Postcard Posse
  • Free Quilt Block Patterns

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Happy Quilting!

Penny