Scrappy Bow Ties - The Quilt

Three years ago last month I decided to participate

in the "modern" group of Barb's Bow Tie swap.

I made a LOT of bow tie blocks 

and sent off 80 of them to be swapped

with the other participants.

A few weeks later, I received a package from Barb

filled with 80 blocks made by other participants.

But HOW to use them?

Sometime during mid-2016

I came up with this row-style setting.

It was the first quilt I'd made using grays

as the background fabrics.

But then the finished quilt top stalled.

I had just purchased my APQS George sit-down longarm

but I wasn't very good at using it and

I didn't feel confident enough to quilt this.

So the top and the pieced back 

were hung in my closet . . .

Over two years later as I sandwiched the layers,

I still wasn't 100% sure of how I wanted to quilt

these scrappy bow ties.

But as I was pin basting the final row,

the answer dawned on me.

Liberated orange peels!

So I did -- and I love the results.

Evenly distributed unifying texture 

without an overpowering amount of thread.

(Glide's Nickel on top and Lead on the back)

The gray and white striped binding

adds a little bit of sassiness to the quilt's edges

and plays nicely with the scrappy back.

I am ELATED with this long overdue finish.

Quiltdivajulie

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"Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection." Toba Beta