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You only have to look at my bin to see what I have been
working on this week. I have made a final push on the log cabin sampler blocks;
I really do need to get this out of my system! The bin is full and the
workstation very messy but that is the nature of progress.
I used this Maggie Malone book as a reference and chose a
9-patch pattern called Saw tooth. I made the 9 sections but somehow it looked
wrong. I found that I had put a light block in the top left hand corner instead
of a dark one so that was easy (if not time consuming) to rectify. But this
block also highlighted one of the problems of working with Liberty fabrics on
such a small scale. As they are all heavily floral, a light flower on a dark fabric
can dominate the narrow strip and affect the clarity of the pattern. I hope
that whatever quilting I decide to do will help to define the patterns more
clearly. If you blur your eyes when you look at the blocks they are better! I
also sewed another 9-patch called Birds in the air to complete the 20 blocks.
I sewed a dark 1” strip of fabric around each block to add
definition and to contain the busy little patterns. This is a vast improvement!
Here they are on my design wall and beginning to look like the quilt they are
meant to be.
In between the blocks I will probably place light strips of
Liberty fabric with a dark square as the corner stone. I breathe a big sigh of
relief as the hard work on this quilt is all but finished! The Liberty basket
is still over-flowingly full which means I have to make a large quilt to shift
a lot more of it!
We had a fiendishly wet day last Thursday so I used the
opportunity to layer, quilt and bind another Linus quilt.
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