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I started a quilt for my niece - I'm naming it One Particular Harbor. It will be quilted using a shore motif and teal color thread. Two rows down, 4 to go. Will finish this quilt top this week.
The pattern I'm using for One Particular Harbor came from an old quilting magazine and is a 16-patch quasi-log cabin block. The blocks will be put together into a "Barn Raising" pattern.
Also this past week I put together the 9 blocks in the Home Tweet Home series. I was quite delighted to find that so far, I've been able to use only fabrics from my stash. I still need to add sashings and a border but I think even that will be from my stash. I need to blanket stitch, or do some type of stitch, to secure the applique. And I think I'll machine quilt this myself in an overall meander. There are lots of embellishments that can be done to this piece - the pattern shows a couple of pieces with thread "nests", beaded chains for hanging the birdhouses from tree limbs, and I'm sure more opportunities for embellishments will appear once I start looking at it in that frame of mind.
I started a quilt for my niece - I'm naming it One Particular Harbor. It will be quilted using a shore motif and teal color thread. Two rows down, 4 to go. Will finish this quilt top this week.
The pattern I'm using for One Particular Harbor came from an old quilting magazine and is a 16-patch quasi-log cabin block. The blocks will be put together into a "Barn Raising" pattern.
Also this past week I put together the 9 blocks in the Home Tweet Home series. I was quite delighted to find that so far, I've been able to use only fabrics from my stash. I still need to add sashings and a border but I think even that will be from my stash. I need to blanket stitch, or do some type of stitch, to secure the applique. And I think I'll machine quilt this myself in an overall meander. There are lots of embellishments that can be done to this piece - the pattern shows a couple of pieces with thread "nests", beaded chains for hanging the birdhouses from tree limbs, and I'm sure more opportunities for embellishments will appear once I start looking at it in that frame of mind.
Love your Home Tweet Home piece -- especially the little squirrel! Very darling!! And the One Particular Harbor will be quite lovely! :)
ReplyDeleteLove the colors in your One Particular Harbor, and your Home Tweet Home blocks are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYour appliqué blocks are lovely. Congratulations on them and on just using your stash! Your niece is one lucky girl to be receiving that quilt. I can't believe how speedy you are to be able to get the whole top done so quickly! Impressive.
ReplyDeleteGreat applique blocks! Our ancestresses (?) used the straight stitch to do their applique.
ReplyDeleteIt is going to be a special quilt!
Your bird blocks are absolutely adorable...what a great project!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I adore the bird houses. Those kinds of embellished projects are so much fun!
ReplyDeleteThe tweets is beautiful. I really enjoy doing machine applique and your's is great. and your other projects aren't bad, either.
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