By evening I had added the cream center border, pieced and attached the corners and the pieced top section. (Sorry, no pictures of this progress)
I'm an early riser so by 6 am Friday I was sewing the strips together for the sides. When you are piecing a Boston Commons, the strips are sewn together diagonally so it is very important to make sure you are sewing the correct diagonal angle. By 10 am, I had those side strips pieced. I laid them down on the sides and I had sewn them incorrectly, my angle went the opposite direction.
I spent the rest of the morning, afternoon and early evening taking the rows apart. During the show & tell Friday evening, I was pulling all those little threads out of the seam rows. After show & tell I pressed them and then started sewing the strips together correctly. I went to bed around 11pm. Saturday morning I was up and sewing them onto the main body by 5:30 am. (I never stay up late at night at home. My husband wonders why I'm so exhausted when I return home.)
After the main body was finished, I got the outside borders attached and the edge was zigzagged. I was finished by noon. The quilt flimsy measures 102" by 120". This unquilted top is one of my donations to the school auction my Pennsylvania grands attend. Someone there will hand quilt her before the 2019 auction. It's going to take awhile to quilt that giant quilt.
Boston Commons was the 4th flimsy to be crossed off my list of 10 unfinished quilts to progress to the flimsy stage this year.
I had taken another project along to work on and would have sewed on it if I hadn't had to spend Friday unsewing. I finished embroidering a block I wanted to finish before I started appliqueing the Star Dance border.
I also made the bias vine for Star Dance. The appliqueing has started and I will show you the progress on Sunday's Slow Stitching post.
I'm adding links to other retreat attendees who have blogs. Rosemary will have several posts including a smilebox of show and tell.
Judy Hansen - Small Quilts and Doll Quilts; Rosemary Youngs - Reproducing an Antique Quilt; Rosemary Youngs - Smile Box from Jane Stickle Retreat.
Linking to Esther's Wednesday WOW!, Let's Bee Social, Whatever Wednesday, Sew, Stitch, Snap SHOW, My Quilt Infatuation, Finished Or Not Friday, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, TGIFF!, Finish It Up Friday, Show Off Saturday
11 comments:
Aww...so frustrating to have to remove stitches at retreat instead of add. Easy to make to do at a retreat. Ask me how I know.
COngrats on sticking with it and getting it finished! Its beautiful!
It's beautiful!!!!
Well shoot, but in the end you got it done and it's beautiful!
wow that is a beauty and way to stick to it:)
I bet a few choice words were muttered when you saw your error. What a lot of patience you have. It looks fabulous though, well done for persevering with it. Thanks for linking to Sew, Stitch, Snap,SHARE.
This is such a stunning quilt - makes me want to get the book out and make one! Great work Gretchen - almost 1/2 way through the UFO's! I am suffering burnout!
It looks like you made wonderful progress on your quilting projects during retreat!
Your Boston Commons quilt top ultimately turned out fabulous!
Your Boston Commons quilt is lovely-what colors! Lucky you to go to the retreat at Shipshewana. Sorry you had to pluck stitches out-been there done that.
Well shoot, but in the end you got it done and it's beautiful!
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Yikes, so it isn't just me that does this kind of thing. I sometimes feel like I shouldn't be trying this because I do mess up. But you perservered and got it done and will have a masterpiece to show for your efforts. All inspiring!
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