For this month’s LaPetité project, we were to use a free pattern (Yeah!!!) from the Moda Bake Shop website, Candy Bar Pinwheels. I really liked this pattern and it went together easily.
In lieu of buying a “candy bar” set that I didn’t need, I used leftover fabrics from the February project. Whew! I *just* had enough!! I had to buy some fabric for a border and considered not adding one but like the orange/bright fabric I found. (Love the “south of the bypass” shop that has brights! 🙂 )
This one is all done! Quilted, bound, and washed! 🙂 Hoping to take to K personally soon. It is 26″ x 34″ and I put the hanging sleeve on a short side so it actually hangs the other way, not how I photographed it.
I barely had enough for the binding so cut 1 1/2″ strips and just used a single-fold binding. Actually quite nice to sew down without the extra bulk. I like how the blue/aqua/green/pink binding fabric cools down the orange border. The raspberry inner border is one of my hand dyes.
The LaPetité parades are posted at THIS website for 1/2 of us and THIS website for the others.
And in other quilting corners, I finished the April LaPetité binding while away for our anniversary. I washed it Monday and now it hangs over the aquarium. Whew! Fresh & bright instead of the fall one that was there. I SO don’t decorate well!
Oooh, I love those! Great job, and I know miss K will love hers!
the quilting is gorgeous. and the raspberry color is really gorgeous. nice finish.
Love em’! :o)
Aw this is lovely – bet K loves it, that raspberry hand dyed fabric is gorgeous.
Oh – and I nodded sagely about not needing a candy bar and then worked out you meant fabric…. 😉
Ah yes, Missus Wookie! One company packages fabric in a bundle of 2 1/2″ x 5″ pieces. That makes a “candy bar”. Then 4 of those to a pkg. Not something I wanted to buy for one little quilt. And I’d prefer a donut over a candy bar in my previous (sugared & carbed) life! 🙂
K’s a lucky girl: I love it, too!