Don't stop Friday finishes!

Don't Stop

72 inches square

pieced by my mom and  machine quilted by me

I finished this quilt a week ago and it is now in the hands of its new owner.

The name comes from the Fleetwood Mac song

and some of the lyrics are machine quilted into the darker triangles.

I did a simple motif on the dark triangles

and more intense quilting on the neutral ones.

I varied the background motifs to avoid boredom

and to give the quilt some energy and motion.

Here's a view of the quilting from the back.

it has quilt shop quality flannel on the back, 

and sale wall quilt shop fabrics on the front.

Close ups of the background quilting motifs

This quilt started as a birthday kit for my mom.

I cut four coordinating prints and background fabric into 6.5 inch HST

with the Accuquilt Go cutter.

Now my mom is an award-winning quilter who makes beautiful applique quilts,

but I wanted her to have a mindless sewing project

where she could just piece, and then put the top together.

Since all of her kids and grandkids are well supplied with quilts,

she was happy to give this to another family member dealing with a serious illness.

I bound the quilt with a zig zag print cut on the length of grain to get diagonal stripes.

I'm linking up with Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Lots of triangulation here

A week ago I started sewing together 6.5 inch HST,

previously cut from scraps with my Accuquilt GO cutter.

The whole point was to empty a bin

and make a charity quilt 60 by 80 inches.

I put it together in a 9 by 11 grid,

which makes it 54 by 66 before borders.

Then I started auditioning borders.

I like this black and gold leafy print,

but it overwhelms the triangles.

Then I saw the cover of Gwen Marston's latest book titled Free Range Triangles

and dug through another scrap box of precut 3.5 inch HST to make a zig zag border.

I plan to border the whole quilt with a narrow inner border

and then add the zig zags.

So here's the dilemma:

Should I add another column of big HST and make it 60 inches wide

and just add the borders top and bottom?

Or take off a column of HST and sew the triangles in a 8 by 12 grid

before putting on the borders to get it close to 60 by 80?

The dimensions for a charity quilt can run a bit bigger,

but my problem is that my free batting that I was going to use in this quilt

only measure 60 inches wide.

And I really don't want to unpick a column.

I'm going to take it to my guild meeting tonight and get their opinions,

but feel free to weigh in.

I'm linking up with Beth and other Monday Makers

 at Love Laugh Quilt.