March 1, 2008
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Quilt Show
Please bear in mind that March is blowing in today, so the quilt square and the quilt did not cooperate well when The Professor photographed them for me outside in the sunshine.
This is the Something in the Air block from August 2006. I finally pieced it last night. Eventually I hope to put all twelve Something in the Air blocks together and finish the quilt.
Here is my version of the completed guild challenge. The main fabric is much prettier in actuality than comes across in the photograph. It was actually painful for me to cut this fabric, so I tried to leave the pieces as large as possible. The small blue squares pick up the blue in the patterned fabric, but this is also difficult to see in the photograph.This quilt also includes my first attempt at sashiko. (You might see the embroidery in the dark green octagons.) I also used the sashiko patterns for the machine quilting in the other octagons.
Comments (3)
Pretty quilts!
Your Something in the Air block is pieced perfectly! From what I can tell from the picture, that is unusual and pretty fabric in the guild challenge. It looks like you did an excellent job at sashiko!
RYC: Yes, there are a lot of quilt shops in the Atlanta area, but it is still quite a distance to drive. One shopper said that she clocked it at over 400 miles!
beautiful! Did you make the bargello that's your profile picture? That's on my list of "quilts to try". I've never heard of sashiko, so it was interesting to do a google search and see what came up. Hmmm....
What competition quilt are you doing?
I'm a newbie quilter and I'm entering something in the Hoffman Challenge contest. ACK! It's been obsessing all my time lately....
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