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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Partial quilting 

 The edges were trimmed to square it up, so that was the first reduction.  Like this.
 First trim

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.

 Cropped

Finally, another 1/4″ will be lost all around as I complete the finishing process with a facing.  That’s coming soon.

Ellen Lindner

2 Comments

  1. Maggi says:

    I definitely like the way that the cropping has brought the flowers down to the base of the quilt.

  2. ellen says:

    Thanks, Maggi. I think that helped a lot, too.