No, this isn’t a bird-watching entry. One of my quilting magazines came last month, and one of the patterns called out to me. It’s basically a “Birds in the Air” block, with a variety of red fabrics used in the unpieced half of the square. I already had the fabric in my stash to make it, so I started cutting right away. This quilt will be roughly 60″ x 60.” It takes 64 blocks. Since I’ve chosen to make it with a scrappy look, I have more than enough pieces already cut out to make more blocks. It would be easy to expand the quilt and make it full size.
This is what the basic block looks like:
I have about half the blocks pieced. This is what the quilt will look like as I assemble it:
I don’t too often jump into a quilt like this when I have others ready to go. Actually, I have TWO others ready to piece. I wanted to combine a group of Christmas themed fabrics with some of the “woodsy” fabrics I brought home from Alaska. I thought this might make the kind of quilt I’d like to have on the back of the couch at Christmas. Can’t you see drawing a cover up over you while you read on a snowy day?
I love using my digital camera to take pictures of blocks. As I looked over some of the pictures I took today, I realized that two of the darker “neutral” fabrics were just a bit too dark for this quilt. It’s a wonderful tool to determine value in quilts.
I don’t have a name for this quilt yet. The designer called hers “Red Sky At Night,” but I don’t want Dear Husband to get any ideas about appropriating it for the boat!
Daily Archives: July 22, 2007
Share a Square
Do you see the button to the right, at the top of the sidebar? It has the power to take you to a blog where wonderful things are happening.
Sherry at This Eclectic Life has a goal she is trying to reach, and she needs our help. She would like to make an afghan made of crocheted Granny Squares for every child who will be attending Cancer Camp in Ft. Worth, Texas next summer. To accomplish this, she needs thousands of granny squares, and that’s where you come in.
Would you click on the button, and go read what she hopes to accomplish and then send her at least one granny square? The squares should be five rounds, six inches, and made of whatever washable yarn you have to donate. Patterns for the squares and instructions for the simple stitches can be found on-line.
I’ve asked the members of my exercise class to help, and Elegante Mother’s Empty Nester sewing group. I’ve asked family members to contribute. If you can’t crochet, Sherry will accept a six inch knitted square. If you share the word, then many hands will make the work light.
Mailing information is given on Sherry’s blog. Perhaps you can spread the word for your contacts and be the collector and mailer of the squares. Our goal is to get them to Sherry in August. She’s received 634 of the 6720 she needs.
I have seven made from two kinds of variegated yarn.
I hope to make several more in the more traditional pattern with a different color for each round. This type of work is very portable. You can carry it with you and work on it anywhere you have to wait for a bit.
Won’t you please help?