Wednesday 1 March 2017

All Dressed Up

Today’s quilt top used fabric and the name from the Kim Diehl’s Simply Whatnots kit, but not the pattern. The original design called for twenty-nine 3” spool blocks, each with a 1” finished center and 1” half square triangles in all four corners. The result would have been a quilt top measuring 21” square; a bit large for a table topper, and a bit small for a wall hanging. There was at least enough fabric in the kit to make two quilts that size, so I decided to redesign it. The spools are now 4” finished, with 2” centers and Y-seams instead of half-square triangles. It probably took a lot longer to complete than the original pattern would have done, but I’m happy with the way my now 28” square top turned out. And there are still enough scraps left to make another one, if I decide I want to actually try following the pattern.

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