The Amazing Shrinking Quilt
***Challenge spoiler*** If you’re participating in the flower wagon challenge, you may not want to see my progress.
Here’s my snapdragon quilt as it neared completion. But, it was about to shrink, as I began the finishing process.
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The edges were trimmed to square it up, so that was the first reduction. Like this.
Then, if it’s one of my pieces, there’s a very good chance I’ll crop it some more. (My friends consider me the poster child for cropping!) I often find cropping to be useful in improving the composition of quilt. That was the case with this quilt. Here it is, after cropping.
Finally, another 1/4″ will be lost all around as I complete the finishing process with a facing. That’s coming soon.
Ellen Lindner
I definitely like the way that the cropping has brought the flowers down to the base of the quilt.
Thanks, Maggi. I think that helped a lot, too.