
I had started the practice of making quilts for my nieces and nephews as wedding gifts. My sisters pointed out how unfair it was that they'd have to divorce their husbands and remarry just to get a quilts. Sigh. So I made sister #1 a quilt for her 50th birthday. This is the quilt for sister #2. She loves fantasy so I found a lovely stained glass pattern of a unicorn that I've appliquing onto a simple pieced background. I found I hate piecing bed quilts. Too much math. And you can see how accurate my arithmetic is. After all the cutting and sewing. I started laying it out on my design wall and found that I'm 9 block short. Grr. More cutting and piecing ahead. One life saver tip I read online was to buy a double needle to stitch down the bias tape around the unicorn. It's been tough keeping the stitches straight enough with all those curving pieces in the tail and mane. Work remaining to be done: Piecing more blocks (grrr), stitching down remaining bias tape, quilting, and binding.
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