Izzy's Garden: Working on the EAA Raffle Quilt

Izzy's Garden Quilt Top for the EAA Raffle Quilt in July

We got the top sewed together after a full day's work at Open Sew on Saturday.

I'm on the Lakeside Quilt Guild Committee charged with making the raffle quilt for the EAA Quilt Show in late July.  The pattern is called Izzy's Garden (from APQ April 2020).  A few weeks ago, we met to cut the fabrics, and laid out them out.    Today at Open Sew, the 4 of us put the pieces together, with 2 sewers, and 2 pinners / pressers.

Laura and Janice at the sewing machines.

 

Linda and I (not pictured) were pinning and pressing all day. 

 

This must have been mid-afternoon.  Once we had the strips together, the rest of it went pretty fast.

We strategically pressed the seams so that we could nest them when we put the strips together.  Nested seams are the best thing since sliced bread! That techniques helps your pieces meet where they should: Accurate piecing.

 

Here's we're starting to lay them out -- Happy to see that the hexagons are lining up as expected.

Janice's daughter Jenny brought our lunches (Thank you!).  She helped us in the layout phase a few weeks ago, so that we had good placement of the blocks for colors and textures.   That's one of her gifts as a quilter.

The hardest part was lining up the trapezoids so that they would make a straight line.  YES-- There are no Y-seams in this quilt!  So we spent the morning pinning those pieces together.  I was sure we'd be done by noon today with the 4 of us (Laura Ramseier, Janice Potraz, and Linda ??) working on it, but it took us until 4:30 this afternoon to get it all together.

It's a pretty quilt top -- reminds me of summer gardens and ponds and lily pads.   I would not mind winning this quilt myself!