Another Partial Seam Herringbone

I finished this recently, made with a Tula Pink jelly roll and some scraps. I also made a matching pillow. I probably had enough strips left over for another row, to make it wider, but decided against it after much huffing and puffing. It's a weird size but it actually works well as a TV quilt- just the right side for draping over a lap to watch TV or read on the sofa.

My cats looooove it. 

I like it okay. My husband has claimed it for himself. That's fine. It's pretty but I am deeply unsatisfied with the size and wish I had bothered to make it bigger. Problem was that I had the perfect size batting scrap and backing scrap for it so that definitely had an impact on my decision making.

The backing is Tula Pink and I quilted it with 60wt King Tut white cotton thread and Quilter's Dream Green batting, my favorite.

I do love me a herringbone though!
 

Finally Finished Something (Tiny)

So in my last post I told you about my herringbone; here is my miniature herringbone. 

The strips were 1.5 x 3.5 inches (I think); no pattern, just kind of winged it.

Here it is next to the larger, human-sized quilt, for scale. After I made the larger one, one of my friends teased me about my Baby Yoda obsession and said I should make a mini version for Eugenie. So that's what I did.

I used scrap of batting and Aurifil monofilament for the quilting which I did by machine. I learned that running a line of quilting along the non-jagged edge (the edge that gets trimmed off at the end and comes out straight) helped to stabilize that side of it for the binding.

I really love how it came out. The jagged binding is a bit of a hot mess if you look up close but that's OK. It would be fun to make a pillow version too. The colors are just right up my alley.

Partial-Seam Herringbone Quilt

 I finished my herringbone quilt, finally! I finished it a few weeks ago but just got around to posting on my socials recently.

I used scraps from the library quilt and some other fabrics that I thought would work- girly pinks and blues, fabrics that make me happy, and lots of scraps. 

I had always wanted to make a braid quilt but didn't like the type that has you cutting off the edges of each row to make straight sides. Boring! So when I discovered Victoria Findlay Wolfe's partial-seam herringbone technique I was determined to learn it. It comes from her book Modern Quilt Magic.

There is no specific pattern but the strips I used were 2 1/2 inches by 7 or 7 1/2 inches, I forget to be honest. But you can make the strips any size you want as long as you are consistent. You can even piece your strips as long as they are all the same size when you sew the strips together.

It took about 2-3 weeks to piece the top (maybe longer? I can't remember now.) And then it took me about 7 months of pandemic time to hand-quilt it. I used my favorite Quilters Dream Green batting and a fun red fabric for the backing.

I also took the opportunity of this quilt to learn to do the jagged binding because I didn't want to cut the points off at the top and bottom. That was actually not too hard but a little challenging. It was fun to have a learning curve at the beginning- the partial seam herringbone- and the end- the binding- of the process.

I think the herringbone would work well with a jelly roll, and it would work well with a collection of scraps. There is also a designer named Tina Curran who makes some great pictorial patterns with Victoria's technique. You can find her Etsy shop here. I've bought a couple of her patterns and they are sitting in my digital "maybe someday" pile.