Scrapbox Quilts: July 2025

Friday, July 4, 2025

Help Challenge Quilt - finished !

I learned all my free motion quilting skills from Angela Walters at Quilting Is My Therapy by participating in her semi-annual challenges. She keeps all the video lessons on her you.tube channel where we hope they can live on forever. I have re-visited videos many times.

My "Help-How Do I Quilt It" Challenge was started Summer 2024? I started with her center panel and the first feather border. I thought it too pretty to stop there, surely it should be queen size! So I fussed over more border styles until I finally settled on this pieced ribbon style border. It was alot of work but miraculously fit wonderfully around the quilt without adjustments.

Here is a post when I had the project pin basted; ready for quilting on my "hand-guided" sit-down Janome. If I remember correctly, I started quilting in the center, got about 2/3 of that portion quilted; then took a detour to make christmas projects ! Why does christmas quilting always take you thru January of the new year?!

This quilt spent much time sitting on my sit down machine table while I indulged in the Lil Bear Hugs project. So far, that will be an on-going mission in my life.

Okay, I had to get past this project, so I could move on. I devoted more effort to its finish, all the while telling myself to quit making queen size quilts!!! In Angela's honor, I did quilt it to death, Lots of Glide threads. It finished at 90 x 99 ! It sure feels bigger than that. I forgot to get a photo of the back fabric, it is a wide back I got at my LQS. I love these ones with multiple colors that can compliment so many designs from the tops. The bobbin thread was Bottom Line white/silver. I just took a quick shot of the back that you can see from the tote the quilt is stored in at the moment.

On with the show .......... photo heavy . While I'm fmq, I dont feel that confident, I just keep on. But when its all done and I look back, I think "Did I really do that?"........ always amazed.

Let's begin with some close-ups; scroll to the end for the full quilt.