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Free Motion Quilt Challenge – July

Posted on July 29, 2012 | 13 comments

The July Free Motion Quilt Challenge at SewCalGal is a tutorial from the very talented Angela Walters.   Angela is a professional quilter and successful long arm quilter, as well as teacher and author.  She loves modern quilts and quilting.  Check out her website, Quilting Is My Therapy, for her wonderful books, blogs and tips!

Angela taught how to section off the work and then fill in the sections.  She calls this quilting design Tiles.

Now, I can stipple, pebble and meander, but straight line quilting, without a guide, and swirls are the bane of my free motion existence.  Angela didn’t say I had to practice swirls, but I need to. 

So I drew my tiles and swirls on paper.  I did not take a photo.  You don’t want to see it.  Really, you don’t.  I don’t either.

My fabric sample isn’t much better, but I am starting to relax and feel more confident with the swirls.  Not so much straight lines.

I like the tiling, and its possibilities, so I will keep practicing, and one day, I just might be passably good at it.

Thank you Angela!

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Around the Corner

Posted on July 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

Around the Corner (Nancy Cabot 1936) is drawn with a 4 x 4 grid.

If you have Bock Base, it is listed as 2043.

I’ve set the block in a straight set in this example:

Around the Corner Straight Set

And on point here:

Around the Corner On Point Set

A stronger diagonal presence is created when the block is set on point.

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The Army Star

Posted on July 20, 2012 | 4 comments

I have faithfully used Nancy J. Martin’s Perpetual Calendar 365 Quilt Blocks A Year since the calendar was published by That Patchwork Place in 1999.

More recently, I decided I would practice with Electric Quilt by drawing some of the blocks from this calendar.

Army Star is one of those blocks.

If you have Block Base, the block is listed as 1981 and is a slightly different version. The Kansas City Star printed the block in 1941-43.  

Both blocks are based on an 8 x 8 grid.

Here is what Army Star looks like in a straight set:

Army Star Straight Set

I’ve put the block on point in the following design:

Army Star On Point Set

 

I suppose I could have been patriotic and used red, white and blue, but I didn’t think of it.  I was concentrating on the design itself.  I’ll play with color another time.

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