Scenes from the Road of Life
I made the bias binding and sewed it onto the previously quilted "Sing Your Song" baby quilt.
So it is complete!
It is Finish #10 for the year.
This is a small quilt, 27" by 35" made from a small Charm Pack of only 24 5" squares interspersed with a dark grey Kona and quilted by computer on my B24 longarm.
I'm taking a month long workshop with Maria Shell. The workshop is called Round and Round and we will be making Medallion quilts. On this first week we were asked to make a sketch or a plan for our medallion, to pick a palette of fabrics and make our center block.
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| I want a rectangular quilt, not a square one. It adds a degree of difficulty! |
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| My fabrics, so far. Most of these colors are not showing up correctly. Oh well. |
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| My center block. It took me several days to make all of those tiny 1" HSTs. |
I've been waiting for the extra yarn I required to finish this needlepoint. I received it in the mail today and finished weaving it in and am declaring this needlepoint finished.
It is called Leap and I got it through Ehrman Tapestries. It is soon to become a pillow.
I sewed these Charm Pack squares together yesterday to make a very small top. There was only 24 of them so I just added more 5" squares instead of making half square triangles out of them. I boldly chose a dark grey for the alternate blocks. And I boldly chose yellow thread for the densely quilted top.
Today I quilted it with an allover pantograph.
I changed the direction of the fans yesterday. Today I sewed a some more of it together and changed out some of the parts that were bothering me.
Today was the fifth, and last workshop in the Improv That Block Squad on Brave Patch with Sherri Lynn Wood. Today we got to pick the block we wanted to work on. Sherri provided some prompts that we could use (or not).
I choose to continue working on the previous types of blocks we have made, namely the nine-patch, the fan block, and maybe some four-patches and more friendship stars. And I continued making tumbler blocks as a filler.
Here is how I left it after the workshop:
