A local (but well-known national) quilter, Christa Watson, developed a pattern for a chevron quilt that my local group wanted to make (with Christa’s permission, of course). The original pattern called for 5″ squares to start with, but I decided to make mine a miniature, so my blocks finished at 1.5″, and I changed the layout to this herringbone design instead of the chevrons.
I did all of the free-motion quilting in straight lines to accent the design and to practice straight lines — they’re not easy to do in free motion with rulers. The border has a Greek key design, also in free-motion, and then I added my favorite piping before the binding, using four of the fabrics used in the quilt top. I finished this in just a couple of weeks in April, 2014.