I bound, washed, and dried the gift snowball quilt tonight. Hope to get it in the mail tomorrow. It's hanging over my quilt frame here. Moral of the story: adopt one of my kids and do many, many things for them, and YOU might get a quilt next!
The Quiltmaker magazine has a new scrap pattern by my friend, Bonnie Hunter. When she started paper piecing these little blocks, there was no pattern, so I drew my own. I have 100 of the little buggers finished (which will make 25 blocks), so I started laying out a design for them. Ironically, the magazine came out a few days ago. I was going to set them w/o sashing strips and put an alternate block made of 4 squares (essentially a 4-patch). It was too difficult to make them match perfectly with all the thickness of the many seams. I ripped out the couple I had sewn and added the sashings. These are 8-1/2" square as they are.
Now I am thinking about putting a wider dark scrappy (or not) sashing between these 4-patch wild geese blocks with a gold cornerstone. Just an idea I'm throwing around. I'm about to figure out how large the quilt would be if I do that.
4 comments:
Your wild geese blocks are awesome! I drafted the blocks way back when, too, but haven't started making them yet. I just love it all scrappy! I think your sashing and cornerstone idea is perfect! Yay!
Love em both...beautiful!
The snowball quilt turned out great! I'd love to get a quilt like that, but I have a hard enough time keeping up with my kids and grandkids. Don't think I'll try adopting any of yours. : )
I like the way you have sewn your geese blocks together. In my mind, I think the dark sashing would look good. I'd be interested to see a photo if you try it on your design wall that way.
I can't believe you got 100 of these finished! When did you get the magazine? I just got it last week and don't really plan to make any as I want to work on UFOs. Have you chained yourself to the sewing machine? I do love them! Maybe I should try one.
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