"Framed Crumbs"

I quilted this top I finished in the latter part of 2017.

It is made up of crumb blocks framed with black. I used cornerstones of small 9 patches to add interest and made the outer border all crumbs.

It’s a busy quilt, but one that has quite a bit of order in spite of all the madness!

If you followed along last fall when I was working on it, you may have seen the top already. But then again, we all tend to forget about tops that are stored, don’t we? I know I do. I like pulling them back out after not seeing them for several months! They look so pretty!

A closeup of the block and the cornerstones. I did simple loops quilting. I didn’t think the quilting on the crumbs part would even be seen, so I went with my default “need to get it to stay together” design.

The backing fabric is some huge tree fabric I bought here in Poland. I really like it - It is over 60” wide and they produce it for bedding. But what’s a quilt if it isn’t bedding??

Here you can see pretty well how I did the crumb borders. I did work with squares, but not only. I cut some of my orphan blocks into 6.5” wide pieces and just added them to the 6.5” blocks so that it made a long enough “border” to add.

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I did finish the pattern and it is on the free patterns page and the strings/crumbs page.

And now you know - This is some of what I’ve been working on lately!

Have a great day, wherever you are reading this!

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Make sure you check out what my sis has for you in the store! She is working hard to keep you in fabric you can afford!

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