Canada Day Quilt Along...Tops are together!

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We are back home in the little red house by the sea. That also means back to other projects,  so the Canada Day Quilt has had to share my time! 

But finally both tops are together! I got them out on the clothesline for a photo, but as you can see one of the pins came off quickly in the wind. After I took the quilts off the line I hung out a line of laundry. Hopefully it will stay on better than the quilt!

Putting the tops together was pretty easy. I made my sashing in red and white/cream rather than just cream and white like my leaf blocks so that the sashing would show up better. The only issue is the orientation of the red and white/cream is opposite for vertical and horizontal.  So if you sew the strips with the bottom red on the right for the horizontal,  the bottom red will be on the left for the vertical.  I was sewing the strips on while making others as my leader/ender, so  thankfully I only had to rip out one set when I realized the problem.  One example of when chain piecing the whole set of blocks before sewing together would have been a problem!

Next I'm going to sew the half square triangles together for the outside border. I'm going to sew these together before I put on the solid border because with all the seams,  being off by even a sixteenth of an inch on half of them could make a big difference in the finished strip. When  I measure if I'm not close enough, it will be easier to alter the width of the solid inner border than it would be to alter the pieced outside border. 

See you in a few days. Happy sewing!

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