The Autumn Swap in my local quilt circle was such fun that I decided to go ahead and participate again when a Spring Swap was planned. This time we were to use pastels for our 9″ blocks, which were exchanged in April, 2002. This color combination was lots easier for me to enjoy! 😉 There were 18 blocks, which meant that the easiest way to put them together was in an on-point formation. To get all of the blocks to the same 9″ size, I fudged the yellow and lavender sashing with which I framed each one — yellow on two adjoining sides, lavender on the others. Then I found a lovely floral print to use for the setting triangles, inserting a narrow strip of the yellow and lavender fabrics between the triangles and the little outer border.
I machine pieced and machine quilted this one, using variegated thread in pastels for the quilting. I quilted in the ditch between the sashings and then used free-motion quilting for the hearts motif in each of the blocks. I used half of the motif in each of the setting triangles and a quarter of the same motif in the corner triangles. The quilt measured roughly 53″ x 69″ and was finished in October, 2002. Unfortunately, this quilt fell victim to a teething puppy and didn’t survive.