Mori Girls Quilt

My Mori Girl Quilt is my official finish for the August CT Dirty Dozen UFO Challenge. I was confused at the beginning of August when I forgot I compiled my list a little differently from Mary Etherington who is pulling from two lists, one for a number and one for a color. I combined her two lists by using her color list which she numbered as my list. This month she pulled #12 and Yellow and my #12 is any UFO/project which were stripe or contained stripe fabrics. My Mori Girl quilt was a flimsy made in December of 2020 and this finally finish has hit a sweet spot with me. No surprise that the Mori Girl print reminds me of the darling Granddaughter, the one time baby who has morphed into a little girl.

I had purchased a remnant piece of Mori Girl along with a gray ticking stripe from Bernie/Needle and Foot and knew I would have no problem finding fabric from my stash to go with it. My palette for this quilt was black/white, gray, gold and coral pink. I love the black and white print with the red dots used for the QST which was perfect for the Mori Girl print with its crosshatched lines. 

And speaking of the QST, my plans originally was to use four-patch blocks but when I was drawing out the layout on my trusty graph paper and rather than marking the squares with a plus sign, I used an “x” and decided that this was a better block since it mimics the hair bows and butterflies in the Mori Girl print. I should also mention that this is a Dashwood print, the fabric line was Mori Girls and this print was called Paper Girls but I like the sound of Mori Girl better. This is a version of a Strip and Brick Quilt which I love making since it involves two of my favorite sizes; 2.5” strips and 4.5” x 8.5” rectangles. After the prints were paired, I made 4.5” x 8.5” rail blocks. Each row contains (5) rail blocks with (1) QST and (1) 4.5” patch, either a rail block or focus print.

Sewing the flimsie was quick and has been finished since late December, 2020. It languished since I was debating on whether to quilt it with a combination of diagonal quilting on the top portion with straight line on the bottom. I was still undecided as I was preparing Mori Girl for machine quilting and finally went with straight line quilting 1” part with diagonal quilting lines on the QST

Here’s a pic showing the cute Mori Girls, the sometimes straight quilting lines with light gray Aurifil thread and the fabrics. The binding is the black print used in the QSTs and the backing is a Waverly print. Mori Girls measure 48” x 60” which is a nice size lap quilt for which I intended, but have decided since I love this quilt so much it needs to hang in my studio. I think my Smitten Quilt which has been hanging in my studio for several years now deserves a much need rest.

One outside pic is a must. The Master Quilt Holder obliged me with a little stoop and clarified this by saying this is what I mean when I call him “Stupid”, Uh huh, wink.

In my last post, I mentioned that my plans were to quilt Mori Girls upon my return from the GP House unless the Squirrel distracted me with another one of my August Projects. I made this flimsie with Sherbet Pips fabric BEFORE leaving for the GP house. I thought I would show it since I love making quilts with 2.5” strips. My plans for making this a patchwork throw next has now been changed to another flimsie which needs machine quilting. There’s no surprise here with plans ever changing-the Focus Force is not strong in me. At least I can say I could be finish with this month’s Dirty Dozen UFO Challenge.

Linking up with: My Quilt Infatuation/NTT