Slow and steady wins the race. I can take Sitting Pretty off of my UFO list. Hooray!
Sweetness isn’t normally something I would want to make, so it must be the floral theme of the design that attracted me to it.
In any case, I enjoyed working the hand embroidery, and the wall hanging turned out cute.
A few close ups:
Hmmmm.
As I upload these photos, I see that I forgot to add a few button embellishments. I’ll take care of that soon.
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Tagged applique, Cynthia Thomaszewski, embroidery, LCsCottage, patchwork, quilting, Sitting Pretty, wall hanging
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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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
LC's Cottage 