This quilt did help bring the stash down on the Thimbleberry fabrics & the awareness up on how little I had in lights fabrics...wonderful scrappy quilt, one of those 'one block wonders...design is formed from only one block!
Mitchell has been bring laundry back home to borrow the washer & drier & my folding skills... to complete & get his laundry out of my laundry room. He's been in the process of painting & replacing the flooring in his laundry room for over a month. Recently he brought over his quilt that I made him in 2007 & wanted it washed, he said it's only been in use for 6 months. Well I washed it & dried it...then marveled at the new beauty of it's softer look all quilted up, Beth Michilitis you did a wonderful job on the long-arm!
Now how did I do that pattern? it was so simple & a fast work shop that I had taken at the Thames Valley Guild years ago...where was the repeating block? the more questions I asked out loud, the more curious my husband & son became...well Mitch found the block & Bill got the trusty painters tape out to show me the block. I got the measuring tape out to see the size of the pieces that were pieced together. This is a quilt I will make again...maybe in brights, al spring & summer bloom colours!
Looking at the quilt I laughed as the double piano key border as that happened by mistake. Getting carried away, I added one more round on top of the previous piano key row & loved the look. So I finished it in the double...sometimes mistakes do work for the best!
Here's how I did it...
- 3 1/2" length by 2" width (the finished square is 3" by 1 1/2"), cutting the same number of lights as darks. You, too, may be surprised. Do you have more darks or more lights in your stash?
Sew the length of two lights together, then add a dark on each end, add the outer, making sure the darks are together, meeting at the end, and viola! Keep this block next to you, then begin chain piecing to speed up the process. Many, many blocks will be needed.
Bring the dark corners together, and the pattern will form. A design wall is helpful with this process.
After making that many blocks...one would think that you'd remember!
Good memory...not long!
what a huge quilt, it is just gorgeous but you can't go wrong with Thimbleberries colours...am currently trimming the centres to add the last petal for the Flower Garden quilt and I think I'll do 2 at the same time to get it over with, ivory print background for my sister June, it's her 65th birthday in June.
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