At long last, I have finally finished the charity quilts made from the 2016 Cloud 9 New Bloggers Block Hop! I apologize to all of the hop participants for the delay in getting these quilts finished.
I used 24 blocks to make 2 baby quilts, each 36" x 48" and they will be donated to through the Greenville Modern Quilt Guild to the Greenville County Hospital System for children that have been removed from the parents and homes.
Under each picture is a listing of block/designer names and a link to the block tutorials.
Row 2: Berry Fields (Granny Can Quilt), Diamond Fusion (Alice Samuel's Quilt Co), Barcodes (Smiles from Kate)
Row 3: Snowflake Swirl (Sevenoaks Street Quilts), Double Pinwheel (Woodberry Way), (Fenced In (Yellow Cat Quilt Designs)
Row 4: Pinwheel in a Snowball (Kathy's Kwilts and More), Frosted Windowpane (Lighthouse Lane Designs), Abstract Cabin (Brown Paws Quilting)
Row 1: Pointed Star (Said With Love), Urban Intersections (Irene Grimes), Geometric Transparency (Sarah Goer Quilts)
Row 2: Add it Up (This Mom Quilts), Berry Patch Path (Trials of a Newbie Quilter), Improv Star (Orchid Owl Quilts)
Row 3: Mazarin (Hilltop Custom Designs), Berry Patch Plaid (The (not so) Dramatic Life), Star (Adventurous Applique and Quilting)
Row 4: Bordered Square (Handwrought Quilts), Off Hours (Laurel, Poppy, and Pine), Four Square in a Nine Patch (Stitches Quilting)
I wanted to use these quilts to try a new-to-me machine sewn binding technique.
If I sew the binding on totally by machine (I usually sew them on by hand), I typically sew the binding onto the front of the quilt, glue baste the binding to the back, then sew in the ditch between the quilt top and the binding on the front to (hopefully) catch and stitch down the binding on the back. I made one of the quilts this way (shown above as the first method).
For the other quilt, I sewed the binding onto the back of the quilt, glue basted the binding to the front of the quilt, then stitched the binding down right at the edge of the binding (second method).
I found the pros of this second method to be that I did not have to worry about catching the binding on the back like in the previous method. The one con would be that I like how the corners look more in the first method.
Do you bind your quilts entirely by machine? Which method do you prefer?
I am linking up with Finished or Not Friday @ Busy Hands Quilts and
