It’s been over a month since my last Post and I have been absent from the studio with several visits to the GP House, attending Hubby’s final band gigs and, most importantly, prepping the house for the darling Granddaughter’s visit to our house in almost five years. And when she was here with her father (my youngest son) this meant there were several visits to family and friends, a Baby Christening which my son was the Godfather and a fun children theme park which she would have like to go there everyday thereafter. I, also, have been spending some time with some EPP projects and will be a topic for another Post. Despite nursing a Cold along with Hubby, I finally spent some time in the studio this past weekend and have three finally finishes, one the Sweetwater Rambling Rows Xmas Quilt which I’ll share some details in this Post and the other two finishes will be another Post for later in the week.
I finished the Sweetwater Xmas Quilt back in early November. It was on my project list to finally make a Rambling Rows Quilt with several of Sweetwater fabrics lines I have acquired during the past years which included On Dasher, The Cookie Exchange, Main Streeet, Hometown and Countdown to Christmas. Sweetwater fabrics hold a special place in my quilting memory since I made my Hometown Christmas Jelly Roll Charm Chase Quilt for Moda back in 2017. To be honest, since designing this pattern for jelly roll or 2.5” strips, I much rather use my Staggered Strips and Squares pattern or the Rambling Rows Pattern designed by Mary Etherington, Country Threads. The difference between these two patterns is that the strips sets are either made with two or four different fabrics. They both have the randomness look of a Jelly Roll Race quilt but eliminates having to cut a strip set of thirty-two rows apart and you can plan the layout of your fabric strips. I modified the Rambling Rows pattern to include 8” four-patch and rail blocks.
For the backing, I used a teal plush which I had in my stash. Normally when I use a plush fabric, there is no batting in the middle and I call it a Throw/Patchwork Blankie. This time because the plush was thin like a jersey knit fabric, I did include batting and this quilt has a nice weight. I machine quilted using a white polyester thread with both straight and wavey lines. The binding was one of the black Sweetwater prints used in the quilt. Sweetwater Rambling Rows Xmas Quilt measures 56” x 80”.
Here’s a pic of the Sweetwater Rambling Rows Xmas Quilt with the Hometown Jelly Roll Charm Chase Quilt. Even though they were made seven years apart, they do look similar, don’t they? The Ramblng Rows quilt will be gracing the darling Granddaughter’s bed at the GP House, just in time for Christmas. Because of our Colds, our GP visit has been delay which means I might be able to finish a Christmas UFO.
