The Salem Quilt Guild is Back in Session!

Published on by Tracy @ It's a T-Sweets Day!

It is almost October and it is time to pull out my Salem Quilt Guild and FINALLY finish it! It was last year at this time that I had all of my embroidered panels almost done.

I finished them in October and neatly folded them up and promised that I would take them out next year and finish the quilt, Well, next year is here and I am FINISHING! Yea:)!

I pulled out my panels and started sewing the pieced borders.

The pattern in the picture above is the “original” way that Meg at Crabapple Hill suggests to finish the quilt. I think the border upstages the soft hand work of the witches, don’t you?

Well, it’s all a matter of preference. I am choosing to soften my outer border to match the inner border. I hope it looks Halloweenish enough…

I cut ALL of my border blocks out at once so I could have a sit and stitch session and get them all sewn in one morning.

I layered each set of blocks on a page of my portable design board book for ease of travel to my sewing group. I have five pages in my design book , but I could really use twice that! I used my individual boards as well.

It was sew easy to just continuously stitch away on the blocks. I got all 50 blocks done in just a few hours of visiting and sewing:)

Thank you design board!! I haven’t made a tutorial on how to make the design book yet, but I definitely need another book, so I will post a “how to” tutorial in the near future. In the meantime, I have a tutorial on ” How to Make a design Board and Why You Need One” here.

I think I am going to LOVE the lighter colored borders.

I am going to add a gray/black border and then my second pieced border. I may add a few orange buttons at the end. We shall see:).

Thank you for stopping by today. The next time I post about this quilt it should be quilted and ready for its long awaited photo shoot. Yea!!

Until then, It’s a T-Sweets Day!!

27 thoughts on “The Salem Quilt Guild is Back in Session!”

  3. It’s lovely! I think you’re right to soften the colours in the outer border; after all that hard work doing the witchy-stitchy, you don’t want to upstage them! How big is the finished quilt going to be, and how are you planning to quilt those panels?

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  6. Hi Tracy! Oh, I forgot all about this quilt. Mine is still not even traced. It’s been a couple of years since it was purchased . . . you may just inspire me to find it and start tracing. Not for this October though, obviously. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  9. Hi, Tracy! I totally love the colors you selected for the borders and think it will look great! I was not at all fond of the original colors either. Will be anxious to see your finished quilt. Eileen

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  10. oooh I didn’t realise these Salem panels were going to be joined together and turned into a quilt! I thought they were works of art in their own right! Looking forward to seeing this quilt come together!

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  12. Excellent decision to use softer colors for your blocks! I hope to see some orange in the outer border. Will buttons be enough? I’m going to have to sign up to follow so I can see this finished! 😉

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  14. I was wondering if the panels are avaliable for purchase. If so could you tell me where I can get them? Thank you.

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