Monthly Archives: May 2023

Valentina – Finished

This wonky little quilt is done.

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I wrote more details about the origin of these blocks in a previous post, if you want to read it, but the short story is I was gifted the blocks and they all had issues that I happily worked around.

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The main issue was they were all extremely uneven in every way. Instead of trying to square them up, which was pretty much impossible, I embraced their imperfections and made a perfectly imperfect quilt.

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Nothing in the quilt is square and it’s filled with a bunch of wavy lines. But I have to say that not worrying about square blocks really takes the stress out of quilting. LOL

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Since the front of this quilt was all about imperfection, that’s what I did for the back as well.

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I used the three leftover blocks and patched together a backing using whatever I had in my stash. Again, I didn’t worry about anything being straight.

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I kind of love how this sliver of yellowy gold fabric just barely came through once I trimmed the back.

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Now this little red quilt is done and is perfect just the way she is. Have you ever made a wonky quilt?