One Thing Accomplished

It's not finished, I'm going to do some sort of narrow border, but it's in one piece and all the leftovers are banished to a deep dark drawer. It's 54 " x 66" so far, and it doesn't need to be much bigger but a border will stabilise those edges. I can say I've met that goal for October.

I don't know what I want to work on next, I'm sort of sick of the tiny scraps. I'll cut up a heap for my Log Cabins, but I've no desire to sew either of them,

Last year I mucked around and made a pile of sampler blocks in various sizes. I wanted something that I had to concentrate on producing, not batch sewing like I usually do. I went through EQ8 and Barbara Brackman's Blockbase software and came up with interesting blocks that it would take some effort to piece. I've never completed a sampler quilt, only orphan quilts, and thought it would be nice to have some new blocks to play with.

Some of them weren't hard, but I chose to do them in sizes that weren't easy to draft.This LeMoyne star inside pieced triangle corners was one of my favourites.

 It took some figuring out, because the star grid didn't correspond to the outside triangles. 

I think this was my favourite, I had to work to get those points matching, but it's a pretty block. I can see a whole quilt of these blocks. One day....

I've always loved the Rolling Star blocks, and finished a whole quilt in the early 80's, hand quilted with with feather wreaths. I have no idea where that quilt is now, it vanished after a quilt exhibition.

Or maybe this graphic triangle block is my favourite. It was fun to make something other than the usual stars and 9-patches and Happy Blocks.

Seeing as I don't know what project to work on next I might just pick another couple of blocks to make while I think about it. It's nice just concentrating on one block instead of 25, or 42.

And another top from the archives: Moth In The Window, another Bonnie Hunter quilt in shirts and chambray. My goodness I use a lot of her patterns! 42 blocks were enough for a quilt, but I'd cut out many more.

 I gritted my teeth and sewed them all up, but I don't want to see them again for a while. I didn't enjoy them half as much as I thought I would.