05/20/2025
🧵✨ Susan has been working through a stack of older quilt tops—can anyone else relate? 🙋♀️ I always say, EVERY QUILT IS WORTH FINISHING! It does no good tucked away in a cedar chest when it could be warming someone’s heart (and toes! 😉).
This beauty was a block-of-the-month from Sew Biz in Marion, Indiana, featuring gorgeous fall batiks in deep browns, greens, and oranges. 🍁 Set on point with HUGE 24" blocks, it finishes at a generous 80x106. The light backing gives it such an airy contrast, and we chose “Curls and Swirls” as the quilting design—medium density, full of movement, and just right for those rich fabrics.
Fun fact: I used tan thread on the front and cream on the back (which I don’t do often), but it worked beautifully here! 🙌
Got a quilt top you’ve forgotten about? Let’s finish it. Because someone out there will love it—even if you’ve fallen out of love with it. 💗
Susan’s quilt
Longarm Quilted by .earnest.quilting
Pattern: Block of the Month by Sew Biz Quilt Shop in Marion, Indiana
https://www.sewbizmarion.com/
Fabric: Batiks similar to Cinnamon Sugar Batiks by Hoffman Fabrics
https://shrsl.com/4o656
Pantograph: Maureen’s Curls and Swirls https://www.urbanelementz.com/maureen-s-curls-n-swirls.html .elementz