Figgy Rail Fence Endings Part I

Remember the Figgy Rail Fence quilt I opened the blog with?

Well, quilting progress came to a halt when I realized that I cut the backing and batting too short. I got mad then stopped working on it. Typical.

I pulled it back out this weekend and analyzed the situation and it's not SO bad. I know I did a lot of things wrong with this quilt, so I am slowly getting over every little thing because the colors are so pretty. 

(I already know what is wrong with this picture. I made a conscious decision to NOT fix the batting and backing because I was too lazy. We will see what happens. Might be bad news.)

 (Gob enjoying my quilt sandwich!)

 (Excuse the floors! Doing a little basting..)

 (More basting)

 (Quilted the center, rail fence, portion of the quilt using a cross hatch that is about 3in x 3in)

I am not in an outrageous need to finish the rest of the quilting because I cannot find a binding fabric that I like. I searched through my stash and then stared at the fabric stacks at Joann's for about an hour on Sunday.


Does anyone have any suggestions? I want to find a light light yellow almost beige pin dot fabric. Not big dots, just little dots. Help?

xoxo

Figgy Rail Fence Quilt Beginnings

This weekend I had an entire Saturday to myself and I had the chance to use a stack of precuts that I bought, umm, 2 years ago? The fabrics came in a kit to paper piece a Grandmother's Apron quilt. I really didn't feel like doing that though. I used the fabric but totally changed the pattern and really love how it came out.

First things first.... fabric from the kit I bought:

(it consisted of 80 precut 2.5 x 6.5 pieces, and some 2 x 8 strips, and some fabric yardage)

Then, I decided to make rail fence blocks out of the 2.5 x 6.5 strips:

 

 (unpressed)

 

(seams pressed)

 

(seams pressed, squared up, and threads cut)

Playing around with the layout:

All stitched together:

(stitched and pressed)

(laid out on the guest bed)

 Adding sashing strips:

 

(white Kona Cotton sashing strips added)

 

(corner blocks added to white sashing, and a blue border being added)

Adding corner blocks to the blue border:

 

(string piecing for some checkerboard corner blocks)

 

(cutting and pressing the checkerboard strips)

 

(4 checkerboard blocks pieced, finished 6 x 6 block for the border corners)

A fully pieced Figgy Rail Fence Quilt:

(with an appearance from Tobias)

(a final pressing of the quilt top)

 (me, showing off the quilt top)

The finished size will be a 46 x 46 square. I have no idea what size that is, maybe a crib quilt? I'll have to look up the measurements.

Now, all I have left are backing, basting, quilting, binding.... stay tuned!

Happy Crafting,

Lauren