Friday, January 21, 2011

Table pad

I am still working on getting my Christmas pictures onto a smilebox, so when that is done, my Christmas pictures will be posted.  I belong to a couple of UFO groups (unfinished objects)  and my last finish of the year was this table pad.  I got the block as an orphaned block a few years ago at my guild spring rummage sale.  It came with all sorts of fabric for finishing it.  So I sewed on the side borders and realized that the top was about an inch longer than the bottom.  The lesson here is "don't always assume other quilters make everything square"  I know now why it was an orphaned block.  The original maker got fed up with it.  I took it all apart and squared it up.  I made dimensional flying geese for the border and offset them.  I like the way it turned out.