A little Champagne update

After several weeks away from group quilting, we are back at it. We took August off, got together for a couple of weeks in September and then Marg went to visit friends in California. While she was there, she had an accident and banged up her knee and got bruised. She was assisting her friend when his walker got caught in an escalator. The walker got loose and banged into Marg and apparently she went flying. She's fine now but once she got home, she had a brace for her knee and wasn't very mobile. For an 85 year old she heals fast.

So, we had gotten all the rows sewn before Marg left for her vacation and last night we started sewing the rows together.

We had to cut a few more sashing strips. The quilt will be framed with the blue and then there will be a navy border.

It doesn't look like much got done but it takes time to pin, sew and iron. We have to make sure that every second piece of vertical sashing lines up with the row below it. There are seven rows in all. The quilting will just outline the block and the star and I think we may quilt an "X" in the middle of each star. The blue is just gorgeous and we love the look of it so far. The one we did years ago had thinner sashing. We like every quilt we work on but the blue is just so nice that this quilt may be our most favourite.