You and Pirate crack me up!!

I understand both of your perspectives-ROTFLMAS

This morning has been an interesting time.  In some donations came this HUGE quilt top of foundation-pieced 5” blocks. It was in one huge piece and a Long row of 3 blocks strip.

i didn’t really want to make more blocks.  But, I didn’t want to waste any of them.  Adding 3 rows to the big piece made it HUGE and HEAVY.  I knew my ladies would NOT like finishing that.  So I figured out I could rip both pieces in half and then join the 1/2 strip to the smaller quilts.

so, I have 2 of these.  They are about 50 x 70 each.  Somebody did some crazy piecing!

You are a clever woman to figure out a solution like that, Ellen. 

I was amazed the math came out right with minimal ripping!  I did have to restitch quite a few ends of seams though.

bornblesse2 said:

 I did have to restitch quite a few ends of seams though.

depending on how far into the seam the separation went, sometimes you can simply edge stitch the perimeter instead of re-sewing all those tiny amount.  Once it gets quilted, edge stitched again (to hold the edges of the top to the batting/backing) and trimmed, that edge stitching will be concealed by the binding.

Good thought.  But a few of these seams went back close to 1/2”.  And with all the bulk, I figured resewing was the best idea.  No sense in having that weight and loose seams.

besides, when I did the sewing together, seams all fit together nicely.

That is really cute

I love crazy!!

They will be heavy quilts when done.  I hope tieing them works ok....

lots of fabric in those things.  I've been amazed when I've done strings how heavy they get, but those is a lot in each seam.