Old Glory Scrambled Tabletopper Finished

I took the leftover fabrics from my 4th of July Picnic Quilt, cut them into squares and rectangles and started sewing them together.

Once I had the four strips sewed together and took a picture of the finished top, my first thought was that it looked a little like someone has taken the American flag, cut it up and sewed it back together all scrambled up, so I’ve decided to call it Old Glory Scrambled.

I sandwiched and hand basted it in the morning.

Now I haven’t done a lot of quilting and when I was working on our middle daughter’s Aloha Ohana quilt, I had a little trouble with tiny puckers on the top. Nothing serious and most of them smoothed out when given the wiggle treatment. Then once the quilt was washed any remaining ones pretty much disappeared but with each project I hope to learn and get better so I did some searching online for possible solutions to the puckering.

I found a few suggestions to try out.

First… use a walking foot. I’d used a walking foot to quilt middle daughter’s quilt. So that obviously wasn’t the solution I needed.

Second… adjust the stitch length to a longer stitch to compensate for sewing through that amount of thickness.

And third… slow down. Now I have to admit that when quilting our daughter’s quilt, I was pushing hard and sewing as fast as possible to get it done so that I could send it off to her.

Wednesday afternoon, armed with this new knowledge, I sat down at the machine, adjusted the stitch length to 7 and started quilting… slowly.

And the quilting went perfectly! Not a pucker anywhere.

By supper time, I had the quilting done and the binding attached.

After supper, we popped a movie in and I hand sewed the binding to the back.

I love how it turned out!

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