Hello Cuties! This is a long read so I apologize in advance.
A Patriotic panel picture was sent to me by a fellow quilter. Sue suggested I make one of my QOV panels with this border. I wasn’t familiar with this border but I could distinguish it was a quarter square triangle so I started making them. Boy how I made them! I had just laid a few out to make sure I was on track. So I continued. I knew by the photo, the corners were half square triangles. However, when I got them all laid out, the top and bottom rows were all wrong. So then my companion ( my ripper-lol) and I ripped out about 44 QST’s .
I’m sure many of you that quilt have made this border before but I only made 2 queen quilts and a few baby quilts before asked to join QOV group in 2019 and I was making this from a picture. I cut my fabrics 5 1/2 inches and the red I cut in half from corner to corner, making two pieces. The navy and white 5 1/2 inch squares I cut from corner to corner twice making an X cut for 4 pieces to make my QST. I then trimmed to square to 4 1/2 inch QST.
That night my bell rang DING, DING, DING or some might say my light bulb came on!
I went to YouTube ( why didn’t I remember what my grown kids/grandkids say. If you want to know ANYTHING google it or look up on YouTube)
I found out the border is called Twisted Ribbon or Curling Ribbon. I watched the exact lady with the eagle photo Sue sent make her border and tell you to MIRROR the sides from the top and bottom. If I had thought to look this up the day before it would have saved me a lot of ripping. Sue said she’s glad to know I make mistakes!-lol
On youtube the border she demonstrated is one row but on her eagle picture it’s 2 QST rows.
I thanked Sue for giving me a new-to-me idea and thankfully realizing I’m far from perfect. ( I thought that was obvious-lol)
Ps. By the way my panel was squared down to 19x29 and I started adding the red borders & building from there. The original panel may have been the last on the bolt as it was off a lot.
I hope you all have a nice day and maybe get time to sew, embroider, or quilt today ❤️Toogie
Please ask your husband, as I'm assuming a lot to think of him older than his 20's (lol), if men his 'mature' age, would rather a panel quilt or R/W/Blue one with blocks. I need feed back. Sharon, our group leader says she thinks the younger guys prefer the panels and the older ones the Star blocks or traditional block quilts. However, I've had one older guy that said he loved those panels. So he was awarded a panel quilt. I hurried and made it, from piecing to quilting, and thankfully he was able to make the presentation. He died a few months afterward. He really loved his quilt and my heart was full. Rocky was a sweet man. He told me that he was glad he got cancer. He said he never would have found the Lord if he hadn't. He said his life would have gone on unchanged, not doing anything bad but also not seeking the Lord.
I don’t like boring so that’s why I rarely repeat a pattern. I have to really like it. I will be repeating the Bargello wave I just made, only because I have an extra strip made I don’t want to waste. I do like a challenge. Thank you for always encouraging and supporting my ideas.
Thanks!
