Honeycomb Waffle Quilt

It’s finished — finally! I’d pieced this top ages ago and was “stuck” on how to quilt it until Lisa Calle came to my rescue with some suggestions. It was mostly ruler work, which was a challenge on my lovely Bernina 790Pro — a domestic machine. That involves pushing the quilt sandwich through the machine, as usual, but also holding the ruler steady at the same time. That’s a lot to be manipulating at the same time, and I’m not very good at it, but it’s done now! 🙂

I tried to emphasize the dimensional effect of the blocks by doing more widely-spaced lines in the “foreground” of each block and more narrowly-spaced lines in the “background”. There isn’t much black border, but the larger areas have more of the boxes free-motion quilted into them in various colors. The smaller areas just have straight lines with circles quilted between the lines.

The quilt measures 45″ x 60″ and was from a design by Marci Baker.