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seldearShaz's quilt is done! (Well, the top of the quilt is done, and now it - and Suds' quilt top and my bible study co-leaders' quilt top - are at the quilter's for some good edge-to-edge time...
I had to drive down to Wollongong on Sunday to get them in before the quilter went on holiday to Canada for six weeks!
So here, forthwith, is the finished product.
I'm going to call this one 'Sunshine And Lollipops' because that's what it makes me think of!
A biggie overview of the quilt:
And another one:
The basic block is the North Wind quilt block, which, let me tell you, is positively hellish to put together, let alone get precisely square.
I've already posted these but:
A shot of the start of the block piecing:
A deconstruction of how the blocks fit together to create the visual pattern:
I think this is part of the fun of quilt piecing for me: the fact that you can use a single quilt block and make so many different visual patterns with the one block, depending on the colours used in the block and the arrangement of the blocks in the quilt.
Of course, I generally prefer the blocks that don't involve quite so much sewing. Each North Wind block requires eleven seams. Eleven! And I can never get the drat points to line up nicely. Those lovely quilts being displayed on quilting sites? With the points ever so precisely matching up? I hate their guts! My triangle points never match! There's probably some private cabal somewhere witholding the secret of How To Make Your Triangle Points Match Up Precisely...
*coughs*
Anyway, that'll be quilted sometime next year, with Suds' quilt getting back to me before Christmas so I can do the edges. I nearly added another border to Suds' quilt, actually: it's a small quilt - only 140cm x 140cm, and I could possibly have done another couple of borders to fill it out but...too late! It's already a year overdue and I think they kind of want their present before, you know, they have their first kid. :D
So, next quilting projects!
next projects
A rail fence in red, white, and blue.
I'm actually considering either Australian-flagging it, or American-flagging it, depending on whom I'm giving it to... Actually, I've got way more blue material than I do red or white material, so I could just Australian-flag it, send it to one of the two receipients I have in mind, and leave it up to them to explain to their guests why they have a quilt of an Australian flag on their guest room bed! :D
Also in progress is a scrappy log-cabin in batiks. With emphasis on scrappy, and hopefully a changing colour-palette winding through the pattern. I'm still experimenting in pattern and colour for that.
The Ambitious Planned Project over the next few months is a Scrappy Mountain Majesty in harvest colours from some fat quarters I bought in 2008. Hopefully will not be too difficult since it's mostly a stack-and-whack job.
Hopefully!
Dammit, I still have to send some fabric bits to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arietty, don't I? Sorry, hon!
I had to drive down to Wollongong on Sunday to get them in before the quilter went on holiday to Canada for six weeks!
So here, forthwith, is the finished product.
I'm going to call this one 'Sunshine And Lollipops' because that's what it makes me think of!
A biggie overview of the quilt:
And another one:
The basic block is the North Wind quilt block, which, let me tell you, is positively hellish to put together, let alone get precisely square.
I've already posted these but:
A shot of the start of the block piecing:
A deconstruction of how the blocks fit together to create the visual pattern:
I think this is part of the fun of quilt piecing for me: the fact that you can use a single quilt block and make so many different visual patterns with the one block, depending on the colours used in the block and the arrangement of the blocks in the quilt.
Of course, I generally prefer the blocks that don't involve quite so much sewing. Each North Wind block requires eleven seams. Eleven! And I can never get the drat points to line up nicely. Those lovely quilts being displayed on quilting sites? With the points ever so precisely matching up? I hate their guts! My triangle points never match! There's probably some private cabal somewhere witholding the secret of How To Make Your Triangle Points Match Up Precisely...
*coughs*
Anyway, that'll be quilted sometime next year, with Suds' quilt getting back to me before Christmas so I can do the edges. I nearly added another border to Suds' quilt, actually: it's a small quilt - only 140cm x 140cm, and I could possibly have done another couple of borders to fill it out but...too late! It's already a year overdue and I think they kind of want their present before, you know, they have their first kid. :D
So, next quilting projects!
next projects
A rail fence in red, white, and blue.
I'm actually considering either Australian-flagging it, or American-flagging it, depending on whom I'm giving it to... Actually, I've got way more blue material than I do red or white material, so I could just Australian-flag it, send it to one of the two receipients I have in mind, and leave it up to them to explain to their guests why they have a quilt of an Australian flag on their guest room bed! :D
Also in progress is a scrappy log-cabin in batiks. With emphasis on scrappy, and hopefully a changing colour-palette winding through the pattern. I'm still experimenting in pattern and colour for that.
The Ambitious Planned Project over the next few months is a Scrappy Mountain Majesty in harvest colours from some fat quarters I bought in 2008. Hopefully will not be too difficult since it's mostly a stack-and-whack job.
Hopefully!
Dammit, I still have to send some fabric bits to
arietty, don't I? Sorry, hon!
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Date: 2010-12-01 07:40 pm (UTC)Have you sent me your address? I'll put some fat quarters together this week if you like! Any fabric preferences?
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Date: 2010-12-01 07:42 pm (UTC)I'm actually very impatient, and only the fact that this was for a wedding made me complete it... I really do need a deadline to work towards...
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