February OMG Finish

My garlic knots have been kneaded into a flimsy or quilt top, if you prefer. I made this as leaders and enders for the last several years. I used Bonnie Hunter's technique and pattern for constructing the actual block complete with pressing directions.

When I got ready to put them together, I had a bit of a pickle!  First I decided I did not want to do the sashing technique that was in Bonnie's pattern. Not because I didn't like it, but because it requires a design space to get the colors right. My design wall is smallish and was being used for my RSC 20 blocks.

Then I had a "senior moment" in laying out the blocks in the pattern that I had seen on pinterest. See this post.

Finally, I had them on the design wall in the arrangement I liked. I gave each block a label as to which row and which column, took them down to my machine and  began sewing them together. Well, the pressing was a problem. Some seams did not nest as I wanted. Some I had to nudge, some I had to push and some just did not obey at all. Several intersections are off.  A bazillion pins later, it is together. And now with a 3 inch border. I cut it a little large in case I wanted to cut it down a smidgen. Not sure yet, but my February OMG goal was to get it to flimsy/top stage and here it is..

 If I had to do it over, I would not use the darker neutrals for the background. There are a couple that jump out. But this will "not be going to Paducah" as my guild members like to say, so I am satisfied. And every single piece including the border is from my stash. It was fun to remember the quilts that each of those little bits came from.

I am linking this post up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts, just in time.  February Finish OMG.


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