Design Wall Monday - January 20, 2020

The decision has been made on my January UFO.  Thanks for your input.  I am in the process of making small half-square triangles to ring the outside of the cheddar baskets quilt. Here is a picture of the progress on the hsts:

The six quilts that are going into the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show in February are now ready to be sent to Virginia. This week I finished the hanging sleeves and labels for all of them.  The quilts will be part of an exhibit of reproduction quilts made by The Churn Dashers of Tidewater Virginia.  I am still part of their group even though I no longer live in Virginia.  This exhibit includes several versions of an old quilt owned by one of the members.  I made a larger and a smaller copy:

Another small quilt that I am including in the exhibit is a simple one patch quilt:
I made it for my old Raggedy Andy and Raggedy Ann.  The squares are 1 inch:

Andy has had several repairs as he was much loved while our son was teething. Also Ann has lost her apron, but is in slightly better shape.  Here’s the simple quilt:

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Design Wall Monday - August 19, 2019

Hello Quilters!  I have had a great "catch-up" week, with no company.  All the sheets are washed, hung out on the clothesline for that fresh air smell, and all the towels are now clean and folded and put away.  I am also refreshed, and ready for more company next week.  We love to have friends visit.

And the copy of the vintage quilt that I am getting ready for the quilt show in Newport News, VA next spring, is now a top.  I shared a picture of it with you last week.  Someone asked last week how to get a nice straight look with the sashing, as it is lined up without cornerstones.  There is a YouTube video about this (Here) 


I found with this quilt that I had to measure the sashing carefully to keep it a consistent width since the sashing was three fabrics sewn together.  If the blocks are a consistent size and the sashing a consistent size, the math works.  

After finishing the large quilt, I knew I wanted to make a doll quilt just like it.  I am often asked how I figure out a smaller version of a larger block.  This is what I did with this block:

The block consists of four flying geese, two half-square triangles, and some filler pieces.....and four outside rectangles to put it on point.  Here is a picture of four of the small blocks I have made:

The large quilt has blocks that finish at 9 inches square, with sashing that finishes at 4.5 inches.  So I aimed for a doll quilt block that finishes at about half that size.  There are four flying geese units in the middle, and I decided I didn't want to go any smaller than a finished size of 1.5 inches by .75 inches for the 4 geese.   (Geese are always half as tall as they are wide)  So I cut rectangles at 2 inches by 1.25 inches (adding half inch total of seam allowance).  After those were made, I guessed at making the half square triangles to finish at 1 inch square.  I added background triangles to fill in the blank spaces, guessing at the size needed, and ended with a "middle" of the block that finished at 3 inches square.  With the outer red triangles added, the block finishes at 4.25 inches.  An odd size, but not important for a doll quilt.

If you want to try to make some small geese to make this block, I will give sized for the rest of the block pieces next week.  For the geese, cut four pieces 2 inches by 1.25 inches and eight "sky" pieces 1.25 inches square.  Add the corners to the "geese" and cut away the extra fabric from the back behind the sky.  And NO, I didn't save these little tiny triangles - they were way too small to make something with!

Hubby bought me gladiolus two times this summer.  A farmhouse family has them for sale out by the road on his way home from the golf course.  Lucky me!  Here is the second bouquet:

Michigan weather has been so perfect this summer for the flowers  And crops too.  Sweet corn and blueberries are in season right now.  I picked giant blueberries last week, and am enjoying them for breakfast now.  Yumm!!

I hope to have the doll quilt finished to show you next week.  What's on your design wall?  Please linkup and show us what you are making.  As always, please link to this particular post somewhere within your blog post.  Thanks!

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Design Wall Monday - July 22, 2019

The last seam was sewn on the Broken Dishes Quilt, and this week I will take it to the longarm quilter.  Yeah!

I have another quilt I'm working on this week - one with exchanged blocks - from other quilters in the Churn Dashers group.  We are each making a replica of a vintage quilt.  Pictured below are the exchanged blocks that I have added the red triangles to.  It is shown on my "design wall bed" with the completed Broken Dishes Quilt underneath it.  I have 9 more blocks to add the red triangles to, and 3 more blocks to make from scratch....to get to the 42 blocks that I need for the quilt.





Here is a picture of the vintage quilt that we are using as inspiration:

I really like the old quilt, and hope mine looks similar.  This quilt will be in the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Newport News, VA in 2020.  Today and tomorrow, I will be adding sashing to the blocks, and will show you a picture next week of my progress.

What do you have to show me?  I am looking forward to seeing your design wall.  And no, you don't have to have a design wall.  As you can see, when I am at the cabin, it is a bed!  You know the drill, please refer back to this particular blog post from somewhere within your post that you publish today.  Thanks!

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