Friday, February 7, 2020

Have Faith Flimsy


The top I made using Jaime's Have Faith block is finally finished. The blocks were made by the girls in our Sew Bee It bee. I planned to add pieced sashing to create additional plus motifs, and I worked on the components for it at STLMQG's retreat back in October. Finally in January I was able to get back to this project and finish piecing it together. Many thanks to Jaime for the block pattern and the girls in the bee for making the blocks.

The top finished at 62" by 76" for a large throw size.

For the sashing, I used low volume "bricks" cut 2-1/2" by 4-1/2".  The Pluses in the sashing are accent color pieces cut 2-1/2" square and 2-1/2" by 6-1/2". Two bricks plus two accent squares make up the vertical sashing. The horizontal sashing is two bricks and a long accent piece laid out across the row. In this diagram, the sashing bricks are shown in white and the accent pluses are shown in black.

To complete the outer pluses, I added additional vertical sashings of three bricks each to the ends of each horizontal row of blocks before sewing the rows together. Then I added top and bottom borders with the final accent squares interspersed with three sashing bricks, and finished with LV 2-1/2" squares at the corners. (see bottom rows in flimsy photo above)

I'm hoping I'll be able to get this top quilted and finished this spring for a donation, but with all that's going on around here, I don't know if that will happen. I'm glad at least the top is finished!


Link ups:
Alycia Quilts
Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Wendy's Quilts and More
My Quilt Infatuation


11 comments:

  1. The top came together beautifully. If you get a chance to finish it this spring, I hope you have fun as a nice distraction from all the other things going on as you work on it.

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  2. Love how the colors dance around this quilt!! Congrats on getting it to flimsy stage.

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  3. What a fun quilt! The extra pluses give it such a great look!!

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  4. You've made a lovely design with those blocks, and the colours are fabulous! Someone will be truly blessed to receive it.

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  5. I love the additional pluses with Jamie's "Have Faith" design. Looks great in the limited palette. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Pretty layout, I love all those blocks together, they add a lot of interest to the quilt

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  7. I love the colors in this quilt especially how the aqua blue just pops! Great layout! It is nice when you get help from quilting bee friends!

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  8. The scrappiness of the low volume background makes this piece so rich and interesting!

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  9. Hi Jan! What a fabulous finish you shared. It's a nice generous size and I really LOVE the pluses in the sashing. It's just an extra layer of fun to highlight the main ones and I love the movement they give the quilt top. Wonderful all around. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  10. Oh! I like this. It's a bit more complex than some of the Plus quilts that I've seen, but I like patterns that play with my eyes. Great colours too. Someone will love it. Thank you for linking up to the Peacock Party.

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  11. That is so pretty! The colors are so lovely together! I'm loving the scrappy background in this!

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