I entered Phase II of SewCalGal’s Red and White Quilt Challenge. You can see that post here.
Aunt Sukey Spins Off is my entry to the challenge:
I’m am thrilled to announce, and more than a little surprised (there are very good entries), that I won this challenge! You can read about that at SewCalGal’s.
Island Batik sent enough yardage for me to make the quilt top. Isn’t it gorgeous fabric?!
Thank you so much to SewCalGal and Island Batik!
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Tagged Aunt Sukey, Electric Quilt, EQ7, Island Batik, LCsCottage, patchwork, quilting, Red and White Quilt Challenge, sewcalgal
I nearly skipped this block from Nancy Martin’s Perpetual Calendar 365 Quilt Blocks A Year. I couldn’t see the design potential.
But with a name like Good Luck, how could I pass up the challenge?
Good Luck is an easy block to draw. Simply slice a square in half diagonally and then draw two horizontal lines up to the diagonal.
I always begin my quilt design by looking at the block set side by side in a straight set.
I’m thinking that without borders, and made smaller, the above could have potential to be a cute modern baby quilt.
The next design shows alternate Good Luck blocks rotated.
More rotation:
What if I merged four Good Luck blocks into one block, placed these blocks side by side, and rotated the alternates?
I have a nice basket weave thing going on.
It might be well worth it to explore the four-into-one block by rotating some of the parts. I didn’t think of that until just now, so will have to save that idea to play with later.
What I did think to do was to add another color and play with value. Two examples of that:
There is no difference in the layouts of the above two designs. Color/value is doing all the work.
The next design is playing with scale. No new blocks are added.
I did alter the Good Luck block by drawing a half square triangle into two corners. The pleasant result is the pinwheels you see in the next design.
There’s room for lots more exploration. Except for the last design shown, I used only the Good Luck quilt block. What about experimenting with alternate blocks and sashing?
Who knew that one could get so much design potential from such a simple little block?
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Tagged Good Luck, LCsCottage, Nancy Martin Perpetual Calendar Blocks, patchwork, quilt blocks, quilt design, quilting
It has been a very hot, dry and windy summer…ripe for wildfires…and indeed, we have them raging in my home state of Washington, as well as Oregon and California. So when I am home from the day job, I am attempting to keep some green space around my home.
I have great water, but it comes from a gravity fed spring, so I am limited to how long, and how much, I can water the gardens at any one time. I am losing the battle for the green space. Fortunately, there are no wildfires close by.
I am blessed.
We did get a brief respite from a cool down and storm. Unfortunately, this storm was particularly vicious. There are downed trees everywhere, and it left thousands of people without power, water, and, in many cases, without a place to live since the trees smashed their homes. My father is one of those without power and water, but he is coping well.
Again, I am blessed.
What angers me is that these people who have lost so much because of natural disasters are now being preyed upon by looters. I look forward to the Lord’s justice in dealing with these heartless and selfish crooks!
I bet you don’t remember this:
I made a stencil of words and painted it:
Seemed fitting for kittens:
Then the little project sat.
And sat.
I have finally sandwiched it and finished it.
I was going to use free motion quilting and outline the kittens’ bodies…sort of a ghost effect. Once I sandwiched it, and quilted it, however, I didn’t like it.
My next thought was to paint the bodies. I should’ve stopped thinking and followed through on that idea.
Instead, I decided to thread paint the bodies. Now I know about stabilizers (I’ve thread painted before), but this was already sandwiched and quilted. And, yes, I know that I still could have used a water-soluble stabilizer. If I had any. I didn’t. And if I wanted to wait to finish. I didn’t.
Ha! My little quilt (about 8″ x 11″) shrunk up like a roasted marshmallow! I had to steam the snot out of it to get it to lie flat again!
I’m done. Maybe a granddaughter will want this one. Or I will be an anonymous giver to a quilting buddy. Heh, heh!
On to the next UFO.
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Tagged art quilt, fiber art, kittens, kitty, LCsCottage, quilting, sewing, UFO
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