Celebrate Today!

Christopher Columbus Day? Indigenous People's Day? Let's go with BOTH as I finish up with the Quilt Along for NMAI (Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian).

The 5th part of the Quilt Along for NMAI was the pieced border. What a LOT of seams (58 - yes, I counted them!)

Here are the parts:

3 of the 22 units for the borders

Here are the top 3 units stitched together with the small spacer strips:

Top border

These units measure 4-3/4" x 4-1/4". No room for fudging or deviance from an accurate 1/4" seam. Ask me how I know! I should have listened to my trusty chicken overseer and paid attention to what my calculator said.

My trusty seam ripper

I finally got it right, but had to make a very small adjustment on the top of the right side border. Can you see it?

Quilt top: 23" wide by 50" high

Today is October 12. Some people call it Columbus Day. Some call it Indigenous People's Day. We can celebrate it all. I love my quilt top and will quilt it soon. I will be attending a gathering next Saturday (October 17) at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian with others who've participated in this for the past 5 months. You can read about it AND get the patterns here: Quilt Along for NMAI