Dumpster Diving 9 - Blue Springs Road - the Quilt

Dumpster Diving 9 - Blue Springs Road is finished.

53" wide x 68" long

Started in mid-2019 when I impulsively bought

a fat quarter bundle of blue and white "Bequest" fabrics.

After multiple design considerations, 

I settled on SPRING by Valori Wells

using the fabrics from that bundle 

plus blues and yellows from my stash.

Once the long long long strips of segments were sewn

and laid out on the design wall, that plan changed again.

The top was completed in late July 2020.

Dumpster Diving 9 - Blue Springs Road 

was quilted with my liberated echo daisy fans

using Glide thread in Sky.

I used the last of the backing from Copacetic

to make the binding for DD 9.

As I continue my effort to FMQ and finish

my backlog of waiting tops,

I'm stitching out a sample of each design I use.

I started at the bottom with the original design

used on Copacetic at the left.

By the third motif, I modified the design

making it more fluid to stitch.

As I worked my way across the next to the last pass on DD 9,

I mistakenly stitched a second echo around the center hook.

Instead of taking it out, I used that variation to finish the quilt.

Then I stitched myself a small sample so I'd remember

that I like this version more than the single echo-ed center.

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ADDED LATER in response to questions:

I think the rows appear to be so “straight” 

because I don’t stress over their exact linear placement. 

(hence the reason I begin the name 

for each of my FMQ designs

with the word "liberated")

Once I stitch the first row working left to right

along the lower edge of the quilt, 

 I cut my threads and return to the left 

to begin the second pass/row.  

The second row nests down into the first row 

and so on and so on as I work my way up the quilt.

By the time I get to the upper edge, 

one side of the last row or two 

is inevitably closer to the top  than the other - 

but the overall effect is still that the rows 

are moving horizontally across the quilt.

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FMQ goals for April include

Dumpster Diving 8 - Bella

(waiting on fabric because I changed my mind

about the protective border and binding)

Dumpster Diving 10 - Do Tell

and

Dumpster Diving 11 - Mischief Maker

Quiltdivajulie

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“I never get tired of the blue sky.”

Vincent Van Gogh/ Stephen King