Leaders / Enders

Last year, one of our guild members challenged us to make a leaders / enders project using this pieced unit. If you’ve never heard this term in the quilting world you can read all about it on Bonnie Hunter’s Quiltville blog here.

I began making blocks using either white or black depending on what thread I had in the machine at the time.

While piecing the guild’s contest blocks into the top for our South Florida Fair quilt I managed to get a lot of the block units pieced using dark thread.

This week I finished the Leaders / Enders quilt.

I added two black strips and two colored strips to each L/E unit to create log cabin blocks. This quilt will be donated to the Vita Nova group I mentioned in last week’s post.

I’ve been making a string quilt and hand binding it this week, while also thinking about what to create next.

I’d forgotten I’d put a few patriotic quilts in a bin before the holidays. Looking back over my blog posts I can see the blocks were made for this one so it will probably be the next in line. Hopefully, I can finish all my L/E units with white background while using light thread.