Second set of four blocks
Piecing in progress...
Well things are progressing along nicely and I’m keeping up a good finishing pace, with four quilt tops completed to the ‘flimsy’stage and one quilted by February 1st.
The project that my Bubby and I are doing each week has been challenging but also very satisfying. At this point we are supposed to have the center medallion and eight of the blocks finished. By the time we meet up at the Central Alberta Quilt Show in Red Deer, this April, we should have our quilt tops completely pieced for a show and tell.
I have to be completely honest and confess that I’ve gotten a bit carried away, and as you can see in the second photo, I’ve been piecing my top together ahead of schedule. I spent a lot of time with pencil and graph paper working out my final setting design and with all that nasty math out of the way, I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. The next stage was to pull larger yardage cuts of fabric from my stash and cut all those setting triangles.
This entire quilt top has been made from historical reproduction fabrics I’ve collected over a long period of time and some of my choices were unusual and therefore a big stretch for me but it feels great to see them come together in this project. The only fabric I’ve had to purchase is backing and binding (believe it or not, there wasn’t one leftover piece of fabric used in the top that was large enough to make a binding).
This quilt is turning out to be one of my absolute favourites!