Finishing Farm Fresh Jubilee quilt

 

This one is SO CLOSE, but not quite finished.  Finally I'll have a twin-sized quilt that is actually long enough to be tucked in at the foot of the bed.  I am continually making quilts that seem to all wind up around 60 x 80....nice for an extra layer on the twin bed, but not long enough to tuck.  Atleast they DO make wonderful nap quilts for the couch or recliner.

I'll tell you where the inspiration for this one came from.   I was perusing an Annie's catalog earlier this month when I spotted a quilt that I really liked.  It looked easy enough to graph for myself, and I knew that I had fabrics that would work, so I set to drawing it out for myself. Here is one block....(pardon the wall quilt that it is pinned onto.)

 Kudos to the actual pattern designer, Jocelyn Ueng for It's Sew Emma .  A kit, called Farm Fresh Jubilee, is available from Annie's Craft Store catalog, and I much prefer HER colors.  But I just had to try to use up this Anna Marie Horner layer cake that I had purchased from Missouri Star Quilt Company.  And I had been hoarding the blue, turquoise, and green batik fat quarters , awaiting inspiration for just the right quilt.

Well, they're 20 inch blocks, and I got it pieced, and then realized that, with borders added, I had managed to make a top that measured 90+ inches long !  I thought that it was going to be longer than my quilt frame boards would accommodate for basting.  I cleared away all the furniture that I could from my living room and managed to achieve a space just big enough to be able to barely walk around the frame while thread-basting the three layers. 

Then, while trying to decide on a quilting design to use with my machine, I started looking differently at a border stencil that consists of three concentric wavy lines.  I have it in 3 sizes for three different widths of borders.  But I quilted up a sample, using the medium sized template, 4 1/2",  where I used it repeatedly for the length of the sample, and I LOVED the results.

So........the next day, I spent the WHOLE AFTERNOON drawing those wavy lines across the width of the top, for the whole LENGTH of the top !

It then took me 2 daily sessions......with breaks........to quilt the entire quilt.  AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER !  

I used a polyester batting, also purchased from one of MSQC's daily deals, and a 108-inch fabric from Fabric.com.  All I have left to do is label and bind this quilt, and wait for those cooler Autumn nights where I can snuggle and smile !

EDIT....UPDATE....

This quilt IS FINISHED, as of August 2, 2022.  Twin-size, finishing approximately 67 x 86 inches, after laundering, (quite a bit of shrinkage, but I had not prewashed the fabrics. ).  Cotton fabrics, polyester batting from Missouri Star Quilt Company, 90 x 108. Begun approximately July 11, 2022.