Block 70 - Prairie Queen
This set of blocks was so fast and easy, I did all 4 of them on a Monday evening. I don't think that's ever happened before in the history of my working on this project! But that's the magic and simplicity of 9-patch blocks.
This one is called Prairie Queen, made with green and blue batiks, along with a new background neutral fabric, as I am running low on the 5 yards of viney white-on-white I started with. I love how those batiks come together with saturated colors broken up with textures and lights and darks.
No paper piecing for this one. Yay!
Block 55 - Linoleum
Not even the corner blocks for this one were paper pieced--So that made me happy. It was another chance to inject a little more orange into the overall color scheme.
Block 69 - Practical Orchard
I liked this one so much, I made it twice. Once with the batiks you see above, and the whimsical fairytale Julie Patckiss (sp?) fabrics you see below. Frog princes, mermaids, starfish and sturgeon.
I probably should have tilted that sturgeon so as not to cutoff his nose.
I still can't believe how fast this set of blocks came together.
I am getting better at trimming the hourglass blocks to size and keeping them centered. Success!
Tutorials from Handmade Karma for Week 31.
1 comment:
Argh - the dreaded machine breakdown! I am in the same boat as you, the shop where I could take my Viking a couple hours away unless I want to trust it to a general repair person (i.e. probably not a warranty repair person). Since my in-town Viking Dealer retired I'm not even sure how long ago - years -, mine hasn't been in for a check-up. In fact, the last time my Viking guy worked on it, he said there was nothing for him to do, I was doing such a good job of keeping it clean of lint. And so, I just continue on with fingers crossed . . .
Less stressful with a back-up machine (which I also have but it doesn't do freemotion well) but am glad that it sounds like you will have a relatively quick turnaround time and were able to finish that last bit of quilting.
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