My quilts have arrived safely from Shirley in Kentucky and are ready for binding which I am busy cutting and piecing today.
I started a new quilt at my favorite quilt store Quilt Zone, here in Anchorage. The quilt can be done pieced or machine appliqued. I prefer to piece, so am doing mine that way.
The pattern was designed by a local quilter, Janet McWorkman and she is teaching the class.
I started with a bluish-black background, but then when I choose fabrics from my stash for the block centers I changed to a brown background.
After I made all the centers and then some as the quilt called for 31 and I made 46, so I can't count. :) I was involved and going strong, so kept going. I did not realize until I had them all done that I was as my friend says, an over-achiever.
Once I laid them out on the brown I decided that some of them just did not work and pulled the original background back out, and a second quilt was born.
Here are some pictures, the centers are just laid out on the backgrounds for both quilts.
I will start cutting and adding the backgrounds to make the blocks the correct sizes after I finish piecing the bindings for the three that are home from the quilter.
I started a new quilt at my favorite quilt store Quilt Zone, here in Anchorage. The quilt can be done pieced or machine appliqued. I prefer to piece, so am doing mine that way.
The pattern was designed by a local quilter, Janet McWorkman and she is teaching the class.
I started with a bluish-black background, but then when I choose fabrics from my stash for the block centers I changed to a brown background.
After I made all the centers and then some as the quilt called for 31 and I made 46, so I can't count. :) I was involved and going strong, so kept going. I did not realize until I had them all done that I was as my friend says, an over-achiever.
Once I laid them out on the brown I decided that some of them just did not work and pulled the original background back out, and a second quilt was born.
Here are some pictures, the centers are just laid out on the backgrounds for both quilts.
I will start cutting and adding the backgrounds to make the blocks the correct sizes after I finish piecing the bindings for the three that are home from the quilter.
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| This is the brown background and a sampling of the blocks. |
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| This is the bluish-black background with a sampling of the blocks and a few more off to the side. |
love them!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Shirley. Hoping to get the blocks all done this next week so I can use class time to put the tops together.
DeleteThat is way cool. I love how the blocks float on your backgrounds. And now you will have 2.
ReplyDeleteDo you just stitch them onto the background? Or will you piece all of that too?
I will piece it also. Want to try and get them done before class next week so I can work on putting the tops together then.
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