Arrows - for Project Quilting 16.5

Project QUILTING 16.5 - ARROWS challenge was a last minute project for me. Family time kept me from the studio until Friday morning when inspiration struck. It was in the form of a pile of blue batiks not yet put away after finishing a king sized bedspread.

A huge thank you to Kim Lapacek of Persimon Dreams and Trisha Frankland of Quilt Chicken for sponsoring Project QUILTING each season. Their challenge nudged me to create a project that might never been started.

THE MATERIALS

• The recently completed king sized quilt

• Close up of quilting on the quilt

• Pile of scraps generated from the quilt

• Ugly toss pillow from the quilt that covered this bed before the new quilt

THE BLOCK DESIGN

Following the theme of ARROWS, the dark colors were used to emphasize the inwardly pointing arrow design. Traditionally this block highlights the center star. The use of color gives it a more nontraditional slant.

THE MITERED BORDER

The size of the finished block was too small for the soon-to-be repurposed pillow form from the old pillow.

• Light and dark strips are stitched together for a double border.

• Borders are stitched on all four sides stopping and backstitching at exactly 1/4’ from the corners.

• Light and dark borders come together at each corner.

• The stitching line is marked at a 45-degree angle ending exactly at the corner

• Stitching the mitered corner on the border

• First corner stitched with exactly matching corner seam. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!!?

• All four mitered corners completed. It’s a good day when those 45-degree angles play nice!

THE QUILTING

• Design selected on computerized Prostitcher. I promise to go back to get the design name and the designer

• Stitching the quilt design out with Glide 60 wt thread.

• Two photos of the finished design

THE PILLOW CONSTRUCTION

• Two pieces of backing fabric are sized to overlap on the pillow back. The edge finish is pressed and stitched before sewing to quilt top, and right sides together.

• After trimming corners, the pillow cover is turned right side out.

• Pillow cover is edge stitched at 1/4 inch.

THE FINISH

The Arrow Pillow finished at approximately 18X 18 inches.

Published by Sally Manke, Fiber Artist

Sally Manke's mission is to delight others with textile art that exemplifies her passion for joyful, creative expression through color and texture. She is a speaker, teacher, pattern designer, and fiber artist. Contact her to book a workshop or trunk show at this link. Visit her Etsy Shop at www.sallymanke.etsy

Sally is a brand Ambassador for BERNINA USA. All stitching on this project was completed on a BERNINA 790 PLUS.

A huge thank you to Kim Lapacek of Persimon Dreams and Trisha Frankland of Quilt Chicken for sponsoring Project QUILTING each season.