Thursday, 26 March 2015

Meandering



This tiny quilt is from a pattern by Kim Diehl and a kit with her Vintage Farmhouse collection for Henry Glass Fabrics. At least it started out that way. I loved the photo of the quilt until I got the pattern home and realized what I thought were six square-in-a-squares (in the center) and ten flying geese (on the edges) were really 48 half-square-triangles. Who needs all that extra work, not to mention wasted fabric and added bulk in the finished product? So I redesigned the quilt to be more like what I thought I saw in the first place. I didn’t really make 192 one inch (finished) squares, either. I pulled 48 two-patch blocks out of my scrap bag and trimmed them each down to 2 1/2”. I now have a finished 18x24" quilt which might grace my table this Sunday. I also have a LOT of leftover Vintage Farmhouse prints. I wonder what they’ll become.

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