My new triangle project is still in the design stage. The 9 blocks in the center are pieced, the borders are partially pieced in rows. Since I haven't finalized the triangle border, I can't sew the cross seams in the borders until I add them on. I have been working on this at our Thursday sew ins. Since they are just 10" blocks this will probably be a wallhanging.
The block patterns came from 2 different sources. The 5 blocks pattern is from this blog. After I saw the block I drew it on graph paper. Then I found the 4 blocks pattern in the first Material Obsession book and since they were both a grid of 5 squares, they work very well together.
Click on the HSTeria quilt along button on my right side bar to see what everyone else is doing with their triangles.
I have started a new project with 2" finished triangles that were cut from the left over strips when cutting the last quilt. Hopefully I will have enough together to show it to you tomorrow.
I have been cleaning and sorting and ran across these photos of a quilt I made in 1999. It is all school related fabric and I think I gave it to my sister in law when she retired from teaching K-2.
Did you get an answer from me? If you don't have an email link I can't answer you........I have 2 email links so that you can email me with questions; one is on my right sidebar, the other on my profile page, 2 different emails so if you have trouble with one, there is another. Questions about the quilt top I just finished? This link takes you to some facts and this link takes you to the construction of the block. You can also just scroll back through the last 2 weeks and see the quilt in progress. If that doesn't answer your question PLEASE email me.
Yesterday I spent the morning digging up plants that hopped the rock boundary of my back garden. Two hours of digging it and I'm feeling it. Then yesterday afternoon I started putting away batiks that were scattered about from the last quilt top. I kept out the group above, some of my faves!!
I found this neat triangle pattern in this 1970 book. I think it might have the same effect as the Northwind block. There are positive and negative blocks which should make it interesting to assemble. It is finished 4" components: square, half square and quarter square.
This was my view every time I walked down the basement stairs yesterday. Gemstones, reflections, shimmering......all candidates that might be in the name of this quilt.
I mowed my grass in 2 sessions yesterday. I have a battery operated mower and it isn't holding a full charge any more. I can get the front and side yards almost done when it dies and then I recharge it and mow the back. I noticed the Jack-in-the-Pulpits were really big so I grabbed my camera and went back out.
I have the dark striped ones and the plain green ones, courtesy of my neighbor and probably the birds. They pop up right through the leaves so I don't even rake in the area where they grow.
Here is the garden outside my dining room window on May 3 and.....
here it is on May 19. It fills in fast and I can barely find the stepping stones but I know they are there if I need to get in there later.
I got up with a migraine yesterday and started feeling better by 7 p.m. so I decided to sew the quilt top together. I rotated it all directions to see if I still liked it.
I like it all four ways so it passed the test.
There are areas with perfect points.
There are lots of areas with imperfect points and seam matches. Imperfect, like me.
I don't think I will change my mind.....I'm pretty sure it is the final layout. I did some rearranging yesterday but I still had to make one new block to get it just the way I wanted it. I'm adding yesterday's layout below so you can see some of the changes (if you want to hunt for them). All of the changes are in the bottom four rows.
Here is the
vertical final layout. What I learned from this quilt was that I needed at least another 40 blocks to achieve what I thought I was designing. That means going to a smaller block. These are 9" blocks (72" x 90") so 7.5" blocks would work and would make a 75" x 90" with 120 blocks. I need an even number of rows each direction like I have done here so that when 4 dark corners of the blocks come together it is repeated at the opposite edge. I have spent 2 weeks on this project at this point. I'm not sure when I'll start sewing it together. I did a lot of outside work yesterday and probably will be out again today.
Each day I get a little closer to the perfection that I am seeking. I don't like the way the bottom row is dark and doesn't blend into the row above so I will be working on that area next.
Here is the photo from yesterday so you can compare the changes in the lower left and the removal of the one orange block. I also changed one block on the top row.
This is what it looks like vertically. You can really see the line formed by the last row on the left in this photo. The camera really emphasizes the oranges. They are much softer in real life.
