Jib & Main

Jib & Main was completed in September 2020. I found an unlabeled jelly roll in the sale section of the local craft store and bought it to play around with half-rectangle triangles - a new skill for me. As I was randomly laying out the design for the quilt top, larger triangles started to emerge that looked like sails on the water. The hand quilting inside these larger triangles reflects the two sails on these cotton sailing vessels: the jib and main sail. The main sail is the larger sail that attaches to the main mast while the jib is the triangular sail that is set forward on the foremast.

Jib & Main was full of new techniques for me. Not only did I learn two-at a time half-rectangle triangles, I experimented with reverse applique circles (octopus on back of quilt), worked in hand quilted accents with the machine quilting, and I spiced up the binding by adding two small pieced maritime flags.

Half square rectangle pieces sewn and arranged in a swirl circle.
Half square rectangle blocks pressed open.
Close up of half square rectangle pieces sewn and arranged in a swirl circle.
Chain-piecing the half square rectangles.
Half square rectangles pressed open.
Quilt hanging from wooden fence outside with garden plants.
Quilt top hanging outside on wooden fence.
Close-up of sewn quilt-top
Quilt swirl.
Full-view of quilt held up in front of a green wall
Back of quilt made from leftover scraps.
Closeup of port-hole reverse-applique fussy-cut on the back of the quilt.
Close up of quilt corner showing hand-stitched accents and maritime flags sewn into the binding.
Close up of quilt corner showing hand-stitched accents and maritime flags sewn into the binding.
Close-up of porthole reverse-applique on the back and maritime flags on the front.
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