My retreat activities

 My first job was to  set myself up for some hand sewing by binding the quilt Maggie had just long armed.

Binding pressed away from quilt

Triangle squares completed in inner border

Then a friend has requested a companion quilt to the one her husband bought from me and in similar colours. I am doing another fabric fusion quilt using Brandon Mably fish in similar colours to the contour fabric used on the first one and a similar alternate setting.

Here is the original "Map Quilt"

and contour fabric:

and here  are the fish and setting blocks:

This was my original setting block, far too plain and with too much blue.  But I will finish and join them as I have all the cut out pieces. Perhaps for the back?

Now I'm using this one.

O a similar note I'm making a further quilt using very different fabric. She can choose the one she prefers. Her sofa is in a similar green to this one.

When I got home I found a thank you card from the little girl and her mother for whom I made a picture play quilt. They were sorry not to see me at home so we'll try to fix a date for tea soon.

A rather lurid photo of Picture Play 51x59

PP Back with facing and triangle corners

A nice gesture

Finished

I sewed the last stitches of my Map quilt while here. It's been very nice having it on our bed. I call it Map Quilt because the fabric reminds me of the contours on a map - a "proper" map. The original Westminster fabric is framed on the back. I layered 4 repeats and cut them into identical squares or strips. I am making myself use up leftovers once I've completed a top.

  

The back

Picking up

Hanging up to dry

In my current mode of seeing things through to a finish, I added dark charcoal fabric to bring the back of my "map" quilt up to size. (Map quilt because the Westminster fabric used  looks like contours.) Then I sandwiched it and then just got on with walking foot quilting. I had considered having it longarmed but this is one to sell or give away so the added expense is not justified
As I had spray basted it  I washed it after quilting and before trimming. I zigzagged round the outer edge first.

The back - I used up all the extra pieces and
showcased the original fabric in the centre.