Queen Beez

 The three Queen Beez enjoyed a lovely day of sewing and lovely food at Maggie's today (Friday) and lunched and stitched outside. Mary and I were sewing bindings, Mary's in readiness for the Oast Quilters' Showcase coming up next week. Maggie was stitching more pieces to her complex 60 degree mosaic quilt.

I started sewing down the binding on this Sarong quilt . .

after finishing the "Crossed" quilt 74" square. Check out Maggie's quilting.

Maggie's colourful chevron quilt

Maggie's first chevron quilt with varied strip widths and including broderie anglaise.

Mary's beautiful Liberty basket quilt.

Progress

The blocks are from a long ago transatlantic
Laurel Burch/Kona Black 37NL block swap.

 I've finished the Laurel Burch "Crossed" top using a setting I'd seen in a blog post. With just 12 blocks you end up with a 72" square quilt with not too much piecing work. Mine will be 74" square as I added a 1" strip to the bottom of each of the "arms" to create a space for the binding to "float".

The hardest part was cutting the four 25.5x37.5" pieces. I needed lots of space and lots of rulers. 

20.5 + 8.5 + 3.5 + 5 = 37.5

I am taking this to Maggie to be quilted with a bright variegated thread to relieve the darkness and my Sarong top likewise.

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