Sugaridoo QAL completion
In late 2019 I stumbled across the Bernina Blog, and a quilt-a-long by Irene from Sugaridoo . I very much enjoyed doing a much more 'modern' style of quilt than I usually do, and watching Irene's videos. Irene kept us busy each month with a new row , and by November last year I finally had all the rows done. The quilt was massive - about 70" by 90", but happily Irene showed two methods for putting the quilt together - as one big quilt top to quilt as per usual, or doing it in three pieces, and joining the thirds together after quilting. With a recent interest in quilt-as-you-go and similar techniques, not to mention limited throat space in my Bernina 1130, I decided to give the quilting in sections method a go. The quilt was so big I barely had room to pin it all together. Of course, I could have basted the quilt in sections, but the wideback I was using was just the right size, so pinned everything together, then cut the wadding and backing apart. For quilt...