Improv Pears done!

This was the second quilt I pieced and finally got it quilted and bound in time to Spring to Finish! It is 51" square.

I used 6" square piece of three different Kaufman pear prints at the center of each wonky log cabin block. They were a lot of fun to piece! After it was all done, I realized the green really wasn't as spring-y as I had pictured. I saw more of the dots than the overall, but I was not going to change it!

I pieced a leftover strip for the back.

I had great karma the day I joined all my binding - you can hardly see a single seam. There's one of them on the right of the top row. Even the point where the final join is made falls perfectly!

When it is cold and dreary next winter, I think this is be a fun quilt to warm-up under.

I washed that quilt with the Neptune coin quilt and did have a minor issue. I didn't pre-wash the linen and probably should have. While working with it, the 100% linen was so slippery and tended to unravel. That a led to square-ness issues overall and some edges that were less than 1/4" under the binding seam. This little section pulled out during the wash.

I ended up tucking it against the binding, then machine stitching a tight, narrow zig-zag along that area. You can hardly see the repair on either front or back - it blended into the texture of the linen. Hopefully I have stopped the pulling and fraying.

As a side note, the quilt went from 51x64 before washing to 49x62.5 All linen will be pre-washed going forward.