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Barrister’s Block

Posted on April 18, 2014 | 4 comments

Let’s take a look at the Barrister’s Block.

I drew the block from an 8 x 8 grid using Electric Quilt. If you have BlockBase, it is number 1363.

Here is how it looks set side-by-side in a straight set:

There is a lot of movement created by this block. It can be calmed down by simply moving the color around.

In the next design, every other block has been rotated. And I’ve altered the Barrister’s Block just a little bit.

Again…the same setting, but the color has been moved around. That change shifted the emphasis from the smaller triangles to the large half square triangles. It looks boxy.

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Sneak Peek 2

Posted on March 27, 2014 | 9 comments

Just in case you think I have forgotten, or maybe rolled this quilt into a ball and labeled it another UFO:

I have the same disease as my blogger friend, Jenny Lyon. It is the “quilt it to death” disease. My saving grace is that I am not a perfectionist. Even so, this project is taking longer than it needed to.

It isn’t a show quilt. It isn’t an artsy quilt. A nice edge-to-edge quilting design would have been fine.

I am using Aurifil 50 weight in both the top and the bobbin. But not the same color, so I will have ‘pokeys’ (Oh horrors!).

As I said, I am not a perfectionist.

And it is spring (I wanna be outdoors!). And I have a day job. And I can come up with lots of excuses.

But I will finish. This year.