About three years ago, I was looking at some quilting blogs and found a darling pink and white baby quilt that had an asymmetrical design. I thought it was interesting and different and decided I would like to try making it. I, eventually, used scraps from previous little boy baby quilts, to make the blocks and red border. After I completed the top, it drifted around my quilting room for a couple years, before Teresa inspired me to use that gargantuan rick-rack that you find at quilt shops. I guesstimated how much I would need and bought a bunch of red rick-rack. I let Teresa do hers first, so I could learn from her mistakes. I did forget that she rounded the corners on hers, until after I had cut mine after sewing it down one side. Too late now! I used some dark blue flannel rocket ship fabric that I have had for 10 years. After I turned it and whip-stitched the opening shut, I smoothed it out and pinned it all over, then I stitched-in-the-ditch and stitched two straight lines lengthwise on the blue fields that are on two sides. It won't shift around and looks pretty good, if I do say so myself.
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| pinned it before quilting it with stitch-in-the-ditch |
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| About the guesstimated rick-rack: I had 3 inches left over. |
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