A Far From Perfect Quilt

This photo was taken before all the threads had been trimmed from the top. It is an interesting quilt as for me it represents business travel in the very busy years of our life. The blocks are hand appliqued and I would prepare a block before we set off somewhere to stitch on the aircraft or in airports. It was a way of keeping calm. One whole block was stitched waiting in Heathrow because a flight from Paris had been delayed because of fog and we had to wait several hours for a connecting flight to New Zealand. Naive style quilts are not my favourite style but this one was kept with simple shapes because of the manner of its making.

Because the blocks were made piecemeal over several years, when I went to joint them and the borders, I had quite a bot of fudging to do to get them to fit. As a learning curve for quilters, there are often adjustments or alterations that have to be made in the final stages. Hence I call this quilt “The far from Perfect quilt.”

The blocks were machine pieced and the stipple quilting was free machine quilted. The full quilt is a generous Queen size quilt.