I am in a quilt group that meets every 2 weeks and this year we are making a quilt called Our Town. it's a row quilt with stars, trees, buildings, applique wreaths, etc. this week's assignment is a pickle dish block. i have to make 8 of them. i managed to get one done last night after class. it doesn't look bad. we are paperpiecing the arcs, stitching the melon piece inside and then appliquing that whole part to our 8.5" block. actually, we are supposed to do needleturn applique but i don't do that. my fingers don't cooperate...so i stitched it on with an applique stitch on my machine and i like it just fine.
The only thing i would have done differently...had i thought it through and really looked at it...would be to switch the red and green little triangles so the green would be in the middle. but that one is made and i am not trashing it and making 8 more. i can cope with it just as it is, thank you. 1 down...7 more to go.
And i am working on a crazy quilt for the bed at my sister's new house. i am using leftovers from the wedding quilt for Matt. i found a block on EQ6 and put 4 of them together to make a pinwheel type thing in the middle. the first one i used the same fabric for the center and then anything else for the rest. i didn't like it so much....the pinwheel didn't stand out much.
So, i tried again...making the pinwheel darker and using the same fabrics for each part of each block. that was better. not all the large 4 patch stitched blocks will match each other....but inside the large block they will all be the same.....got that? LOL
There is the first block....24 more to go. sometime within the next year.
What are you working on? Do you work on more than 1 thing at a time?
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Shirley, I work on too many things at one time. I might get more done if I didn't but I don't think I would have as much fun.
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