The Origami Quilt - finally have settled down to work on it and am making progress. All that's left to do is sew beads onto 38 more flowers, and add the label. This pattern is from the book Fantastic Fabric Folding by Rebecca Wat. I first talked about it in my Design Wall Monday post from 11/2/10.
It has been a frustrating piece because I absolutely could not get the folded fabric flowers to be square. So I had to really work with them to get the 9-patches pieced together. So the 9-patches aren't square. And so on and so on. With the whole piece not being square, the outside border is ruffly. This is something I would never put in a show, but I'll enjoy it on my wall. I hope to finish it up this week then get it on the wall so I can move on to something else.
My hands started hurting so badly that I've had to put the sock knitting down for a few weeks - give my hands a chance to rest (arthiritis maybe?). But I did finish a couple more pairs of socks before I had to call it quits for a while.
I'll miss the next Design Wall Monday - we'll be on vacation.
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An unusual design. The origami looks like it would not be the easiest thing to do.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's really cool. I bet it looks even more stunning up close.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on finishing this quilt!!!! It is just beautiful and I know how much work you have put in it. I have had that book for ten years and somewhere have the flower from a demo on this technique. I bet you will smile every time you look at it. Just lovely!
ReplyDeleteI need to take a break from the knitting, too!
ReplyDeleteI always thought I'd like to make one of these quilts ... congratulations to you for actually finishing one! It's lovely.
ReplyDeleteI remember having that much trouble with those flowers when I made a wall hanging from them. Your work is looking lovely!
ReplyDeleteI remember when the author of those flowers was on Simply Quilts. I watched and said "no way." But you did a great job with them and will be able to look proudy at them on the wall.
ReplyDeleteI forgot I had the book and used to love paper origami, I'll have to pull it out and give it a try!
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