Reproduction Quilt Progress

On the design wall

I’m not sure if you’ll remember this quilt that was on the large design wall at the studio but I last posted about it back in December (on the 20th). Since it’s been over a month I thought some sort of progress report was required. It’s very strange how you can be staring at something for days or weeks on end and it’s not until you take a photo of it that you notice something out of whack. Well that’s exactly what happened when I went back to read some old posts from last month and one little block JUMPED off the screen. Take a close look at the block in the fifth column, second row from the bottom and tell me if you can see it too.

Minor repair job

I had been so frustrated at not getting back to the studio more often due to the miserable weather, but perhaps it was a blessing in disguise. Can you imagine how that one little fourpatch turned the wrong way would have driven me out of my mind had I  left it in there and quilted over it! If you know me at all, I’m all about the quirky, but I’m also all about the control too. I must do these things with intention, so thankfully that one little offending block came home with me (it’s still way to cold to work in the studio) and out came the seam ripper. Lickety-split and it was put back together in no time at all. That is some progress, right?

The quilt with no name

This second photo of the same quilt top shows the final placement of the blocks and also still exhibits that one rogue block, but I promise it truly has been corrected. I’m glad I hadn’t sewn it in yet but as you can see only the first four columns have been stitched together at this point in time, but I’m really looking forward to getting back to this one soon. In the meantime…

Blindman's Fancy block #10

I’m still keeping up with my Blindman’s Fancy blocks but now need to sit down to another fabric selection session. I had been pulling little bundles together as I was digging through the archives but now I’ve come to the end of the trail of piles I had laying around. As each block gets made I put the leftover fabrics back into the stash so as to not have any repetitions. The next grouping of fabrics will be more challenging as I’m running out of those lovely larger prints I’ve been featuring as the center of each block. These tend to set the colour scheme for the entire block and as I work my way into the older stash I need to pull seven more fabrics to coordinate with each ‘feature’. I’ll try to make as many bundles as I can while sorting through as it seems to save a little time. I also feel as though I’m coming to a closure decision to end this quilt at sixteen blocks, even though it wasn’t my initial intention to make another square quilt. It’s a good thing that I actually don’t mind square quilts, as I have a tendency to end up square, especially if it’s medallion style, but I honestly can’t see myself making another ten of these blocks to bring the total up to twenty, without completely losing interest in the entire project… and that would be a shame. So, for now, six more will be enough.

until next time,

carol xox