LEAF SEASON
Posted by mountaintopquilting on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
What better way to celebrate the beginning of a new season than with a SALE and a NEW PATTERN! It's the start of leaaf season here in the Berkshires and inspiration abounds with a riot of color, shapes, textures and the result is a new point-to-point pattern that works well as a border or as an edge-to-edge design.
FIRST: the sale details ...
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Between today and September 16th ... Spend a minimum of $10 to get a 20% on your order of any digitized patterns.
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Go shopping in the store; add items to your cart totaling at least $10.
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When you get to checkout enter this coupon code ...
anew_Season
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... and your discounted total should appear on the bottom line. Be sure to enter the discount code exactly as it appears above. No variations will work. (HINT: Usually when I'm shopping I will do a copy/paste with a code so I'm sure to get it right.)
Are you ready to check out the new pattern? It's called 1449 LEAF SEASON E2E. It is designed as a point-point pattern with the pattern width about 8" and the pattern height about 6". I chose those measurements so the pattern would work as a border as well as an edge-to-edge.
If a border pattern gets to wide it is much harder to use across small variations in border width that happens no matter how carefully we apply our borders. Don't-cha-know it is just as hard to sew a straight line as it is to draw one! And, of course, the pattern height at 6" works just right for most borders we run into these days. I don't like fussing with my borders too much so usually I will set them up in an log cabin style wrap around the edges of the quilt.
I start the first border across the top at the inside quilt body corner and go all the way to the outside edge. I like to turn my quilts when I do my borders so I will baste the sides horizontally as I work my way down the quilt as well as tacking down the outsdie edges. This really helps to control any fullness when I actually load the turned quilt to finish those last two borders.
When I get to the bottom of the quilt finishing up the last of the quilting in the center I'm ready to go with my bottom border. I make sure to rotate the border row keeping the same edge of the pattern to the inside of the quilt, and I start the pattern in the lower right corner of the quilt body stitching this border from right to left all the way to the outer edge on the left.
After I turn the quilt I'm ready to stitch from corner to outer edge for each border. I usually remove my bastiting stitches before I begin quilting so they don't get stitched down. The main reason I choose to turn my quilts for stitching the borders is that I think the quilting lines or stitching is much stronger because there are no starts and stops as there would be if I worked my way down the sides quilting as I stitched from top to bottom. I also thing it looks better because I've eleminated the knots that go with all those starts and stops. Another bonus to turning the quilt to do the borders is that I can resize the border to fit the space distributing any size changes evenly all the way across the quilt.
Who knew all the projects that could come from one simple picture of a leaf taken at the beginning of the week!
Enjoy shopping and remember:
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The Dates: September 9th through Septer 16th
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The Code: anew_Season
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Minimum order $10 to qualify for the 20% discount
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