Machine Applique Baltimore

Look at all those bright colours and pieces but this one was machine appliqued and machine quilted. Again, it was a block of the month that helped to keep my creative juices flowing in my left brain job. It was one of those quilts that when I got to the end I found I had made a major error. The lengthwise sashing on the right, with applique done wasn’t long enough to join on. I needed about another inch or so. I resolved this by adding the additional length, cut on the bias, before adding the sashing. The dense random quilting effect means, unless you know where to look, it is barely discernible in the finished quilt.

The quilting journey is often about learning and fudging errors and this was one of those situations. I obviously hadn’t measured twice and cut one on this occasion.