{"id":2180,"date":"2017-07-29T23:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T03:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2017-08-01T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T02:11:42","slug":"expanding-on-history-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"Expanding on History, Part 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You gotta love the direct hit to the heart that this Square Bulleye quilt top delivers. I sure did, when I bought it for not very much money about 10 years ago. I think it was on the table of a very reputable dealer at a quilt show.<\/p>\n

For a long time, it was part of my trunk show for Quilters Who Dared. And daring it is, with all that precision piecing. Waaay beyond my patience level.<\/p>\n

Now, however, my presentations feature more wonky and imprecise performances in patchwork. Inspiration for quilting out of the box, and daring to break the rules.<\/p>\n

And now this beauty is the perfect target for remaking our home, our bedroom, and yes, our bed!<\/p>\n

I was gonna do this the easy way.<\/p>\n

Our bed is a queen, so step #1 was adding borders to make it overhang the edges generously. Finding a timeless, black pin-dot was easy. And a repro extra-wide quilt back–E-Quilter has a great selection. After washing to pre-shrink these new fabrics, I cut same size lengths from the black pin-dot, and stitched them to the edges of the quilt top all around.<\/p>\n

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Then took the expanded quilt top and backing fabric right over to a wonderful long-armer.<\/p>\n

I know a lot of great long-armers in my area, but chose Donna Laing of North Star Quality Quilting<\/a> because of her experience with traditional, antique quilts.<\/p>\n

I just adored working with Donna to choose a quilting design for this beauty. I thought that a traditional Clamshell, or Baptist Fan would be true to the era of the fabrics. The coolest thing was how Donna lay a window of Plexiglass over the quilt, and used a washable marker to audition continuous line quilting patterns. Wish I’d taken a picture of that.<\/p>\n

Also wish I hadn’t left Donna with a lot of extra work. See all those triangles in the patchwork design? The outer edges are all bias. Stretchy bias. I should have stay-stitched these edges; even sewn a fabric ribbon tape along them to keep them in gear. Instead, my borders followed these edges, and were a hot mess of ripply distortion. Donna saved the day, making tucks in each border by hand. Next time, I promise she won’t be biased against this customer.<\/p>\n

I picked up the quilt but alas, it was another few months before I got to the binding and this Bullseye made a beeline for our bed.<\/p>\n

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Makes a real statement, right? Nice overhang, yes? So the husband and I don’t fight for the covers.<\/p>\n

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