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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

My Journey--QUILT #2

 Another quilt from the Virtual Quilt Festival, December 3-5, 2020. 


QUILT #2  Charm Quilt, 96" x 104"  Hand and machine pieced, hand quilted


The Story: Begun in a Friendship swap with my first guild in Virginia, triangle blocks were sent to me after I moved to Alabama. The top was finished March 1991 and hand quilted by December 1992. It was in the frame in front of a window for so long the border is badly faded. 
Subtitled: Quilt Shop Nightmare--I Want a Quarter Yard of Everything Please.  My love of fabric, the more, the merrier, had begun.

I designed the hand quilting motif and cut the template to mark it. Many of these blocks are signed by the makers, my first quilting friends who took me under their wing:



Here is the stencil I made--designed to avoid all the intersections. The one tip is chopped off because of the size of the template plastic--I just turned it when marking that tip. I have not used this design again, on any other quilt, but it was perfect for this one:


Let's quilt.

Barbara
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8 comments:

  1. Janet O.December 23, 2020 at 9:15 AM

    It is a quilt that keeps your eyes moving. But when I read that you hand quilted in I wondered if you had lots of problems quilting through so many seam intersections? Or did you avoid them somehow?

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    1. Barbara BlackDecember 23, 2020 at 10:39 AM

      Great question, Janet. I just updated the post to show the quilting design template.

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    2. Janet O.December 23, 2020 at 10:44 AM

      Very clever, Barbara! Thanks for sharing the template.

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  2. PatriciaLudDecember 23, 2020 at 1:55 PM

    I really love this quilt. Did you make diagonal or vertical strips? It came out perfectly! Thank you for sharing your quilts, and Merry Christmas to you.

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    1. Barbara BlackDecember 23, 2020 at 2:04 PM

      Neither. 9 equilateral triangles were joined to form a big triangle, then they were assembled by alternating top to bottom. The detail shot shows what each large triangle looked like. The light print is the top, tan and light green are the corners, the middle is the 3 darkest fabrics surrounded by 3 mediums. Most were hand pieced. I drafted a template for the pieces that fill in the top and bottom borders.

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    2. PatriciaLudDecember 24, 2020 at 7:28 PM

      Thank you - it's beautiful!

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  3. QuiltGranmaDecember 24, 2020 at 2:27 PM

    What a nice quilt you made so long ago... in the last century! (giggle!) It is a survivor.

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  4. MicheleDecember 30, 2020 at 2:21 PM

    Lovely and so smart about avoiding all those seams!

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