Hokkoh Wicker Quilt Complete (#73)
This quilt has been a long time coming. It is finally done!
At the quilt market this spring, I was able to buy some fabric from the Hokkoh Booth. It was 11 fat quarters, which I knew wasn’t enough to make an entire twin quilt, but with a few solids, and a few other prints, I was able to pull it all together. I used a twist block with two strips of fabric on each side instead of one. This was the first time I did incomplete seams, and I’m so glad that I read the tip online about marking 1/4 inch lines on your blocks. That way, you know where to start and stop sewing to make the “T” seam look as flawless as possible.
![Hokkoh Wicker Quilt 2](https://www.squaresandtriangles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hokkoh-Wicker-Quilt-2.jpg)
The quilting was done 1/4 inch from both sides of the seams. Doing such dense straight line quilting, though, can also show one’s flaws more (so don’t look too close!!!!)
![Hokkoh Wicker Quilt 3](https://www.squaresandtriangles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hokkoh-Wicker-Quilt-3.jpg)
Here is the back, which uses large panels of Kona Celery with strips of “Sugar Pop!” by Lily Scott. I love how the quilting looks on the back. I used a neutral light gray color of thread so that it would blend with the quilt
![Hokkoh Wicker Quilt 4](https://www.squaresandtriangles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hokkoh-Wicker-Quilt-4.jpg)
Since I used ALL of the Hokkoh fabric in the quilt, I had none left to do the binding, so I used Holly Holderman’s Dolly Dresses Leaves in Green. Can you tell that I bought a LOT of Holly Holderman?
![Hokkoh Wicker Quilt 5](https://www.squaresandtriangles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hokkoh-Wicker-Quilt-5.jpg)
In the end, this quilt was 72 inches by 95.5 inches, but after washing it shrank to 69 inches by 91 inches. It is still an oversized twin, so I am happy. I always make my quilts bigger than I need them because of the shrinking after the washing. The quilting was difficult on this quilt (136 lines across this quilt in two directions!) but I love how it turned out, and it will soon be on its way to a foreign land for my cousin and her family who let us borrow their van while we were there visiting. That is if my mom doesn’t keep it for herself. 🙂
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