Free to Quilt: Open Block Surgery!

Saturday 30 September 2017

Open Block Surgery!

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Spot the deliberate mistake with this 'Snail's Trail' Block! I unpicked it just enough to turn the two patch around in the centre and then had to carefully piece it back together again to make it right. Better to spot it now, though, than after it was quilted!

Now I am assembling Christopher's Rainbow quilt in sections and I am following one of Bonnie Hunter's techniques of 'webbing' the units together. This is where you lay out a block (or section in this case) and sew the pieces together in columns leaving the short thread in between to hold them in position until you finish it by sewing the rows together. In theory, you can do the whole quilt like this, but this will be a large quilt and the layout is quite complicated and I knew I would get it wrong. I now have 20 sections to press and sew together and then it will be ready for quilting!

I do love Storm at Sea - It is so versatile. It is coming along really well.

Bye Bye Bonnie!

Talking of Bonnie Hunter, I have to say farewell to my version of her 'En Provence' mystery quilt which I have just sold on Folksy!
And ...
I have just discovered that she is coming to Festival of Quilts 2018. Could be my first overnight stay if she is doing a workshop.

This is the latest masterpiece from Sue Mashmoor, which I have been up in the loft with for all the daylight hours this week. A much happier experience with the 'Fantastico' Trilobal polyester thread in variegated black/grey/silver that I ordered especially for this project.

So much less aggravation than the metallic thread and I really love the way it has stitched out my 'passion flower' motif. No hours of unpicking this time, thankfully!