Op o- Bind with off-white floral binding
strips. (For details, see Complete Quilt.)
Designer: Sherri McConnell (aquiltinglife.com)
Machine quilter: Marion Bott- Join rows to make quilt center.
Press seams in one direction. The quilt
center should be 42^1 ∕ 2 × 57 1 ∕ 2 " including
seam allowances.
ADD INNER BORDER
- Piece and cut off-white-and-orange
floral 2×42" strips to make:
▫ 2—2× 57 1 ∕ 2 " inner border strips
▫ 2—2× 45 1 ∕ 2 " inner border strips - Referring to Quilt Assembly
Diagram, sew long inner border strips
to opposite edges of quilt center. Add
short inner border strips to remaining
edges. Press all seams toward border.
ADD OUTER BORDER
- Piece and cut green floral 4^1 ∕ 2 ×42"
strips to make:
▫ 2—4^1 ∕ 2 × 60 1 ∕ 2 " outer border strips
▫ 2—4^1 ∕ 2 × 53 1 ∕ 2 " outer border strips - Referring to Quilt Assembly
Diagram, sew long outer border strips
to opposite edges of quilt center. Add
short outer border strips to remaining
edges to complete quilt top. Press all
seams toward order border.
FINISH QUILT- Layer quilt top, batting, and backing;
baste. (For details, see Complete Quilt,
page 103.) - Quilt as desired. Marion Bott
machine-quilted a repeating orange
peel motif across the quilt top
(Quilting Diagram).
For a faster fi nish, instead of piecing the Maple Leaf
and pumpkin units for her version of Fall Dash, quilt
tester Colleen Tauke fussy-cut 6^1 ∕ 2 " squares from a
whimsical print and made four identical blocks.
“What child wouldn’t love a quilt with a polka dot pig?”
Colleen says of her fabric choices.FABRICS are from the Julia collection by Whistler Studios
for Windham Fabrics (windhamfabrics.com).Quilting DiagramAllPeopleQuilt.com 85