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The Eleanor Sew Sampler Quilter BlogJuly 12, 2023 at 5:33 PM
Beautiful work!
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Midtom3September 15, 2023 at 8:21 AM
I'm finally able to say that both African Queens quilts are fnished.
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The Quilting Connection

As a little girl, one of my hated daily chores after school was stitching a straight line into a Rag Quilt. My mother sewed our clothes and every winter she would make a Rag Quilt from left over fabrics. The top, cotton batting and backing layers, stretched across, and tacked to a make-shift wooden quilt frame, supported by chairs would occupy the entire room until fully quilted. There were six daughters and we all had to contribute so many lines of quilting, every day after school. Later in life, about mid 1970s I developed an interest in Hand Quilting and never stopped. Mostly I am drawn to Hand Quilting, and this kept me connected to my mother. Finally, now, I am learning to navigate Sewing Machine Quilting. I have found so much enjoyment in all things quilting and hope to share the things that I have learned over the years about quilting.

Gelato Bird Print

I was able to cut 20 blocks from the bird print in a manner that positions a bird in each block. Thankfully, there was one FQ of the bird print in my bundle. The picture of the Gelato layout shows a bird in many of the bird blocks; however, they are in the diamond orientation. If cutting the bird print as instructed, the bird may or may not be the center as shown in the picture! Since I want to have a bird in each block, I made a template from card stock 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches and used that to mark each bird block. Then I cut each piece individually with scissors and squared up each block on the cutting board. I was barely able to get 20 blocks and two blocks are a little wonky looking. I can live with that. This is a beautiful quilt design, but I find that sometimes the quilting instructions for some quilt patterns do not address pertinent details. Nevertheless, I appreciate the work that the designer put into this quilt.

Gelato Quilt

Mid and I are on to the next quilt, the Gelato. This one is very colorful and should be a quick sew but we have already encountered problems with the pattern instructions. To begin with, we had trouble finding the fabric. The quilt and fabrics were designed by Valori Wells and the fabric is by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. I have not seen anything recent from this designer. This pattern is in Quilt Trends Magazine, Summer 2014. Finding the fabric was fun except costly as we did have to order one large Fat Quarter bundle from Australia! They are mix and match blocks from the Quill fabrics collection...so pretty! We were lucky to find enough of what we need for both of our quilts. We were able to order various cuts during random searches. The strips and setting triangle borders are by Kona, Berry and Pomegranate which are still in print. We have noticed a few issues with instructions, which is annoying, but at the same time we are very grateful to the designer for making the pattern ava

Friendship Knot Quilt - We have an update already!

We started on the Friendship Knot quilt this week. It is not coming across so friendly at this point, but I believe it will be fine once we work out the pattern kinks. Today we reached an impasse with cutting the curved blocks. Quilters should be hesitant to purchase new gadgets because they are not always as helpful as they seem. I am hoping that my oval ruler will be useful in marking and cutting. I purchased this ruler a couple of years ago for another project which I have not completed yet. I might need a class just to understand how it works! In the meantime, I am going to use an old school solution. Cardboard! Templates from sturdy cardboard will work just fine and at least I can get going with cutting the squares.

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