I’m working on the “In From the Cold” quilt by Kate Spain as a class sample for the quilt shop I teach at. My goal was to have the whole top pieced by last night… so far I’ve gotten the blocks done, and all is left is sashing and borders. Which I should be able to get done in one night. Here are the blocks, they are not placed in any order here.
A few of these blocks are fairly simple, but most have very small parts. The bottom left mug has pinwheels – each of the half-square triangles on the pinwheels finishes at just 1″ across! There are quite a few 1″ finished HSTs in this project… but it sure does look cute when it is all finished! I’m looking forward to getting the sashing and borders on so that I can send it off to be quilted.
Here is a close-up of the 1 inch HSTs that I posted on Instagram. It only takes a couple threads to be pretty far off on these little suckers, so I was pretty impressed with my own work here. Sure, it isn’t perfect … but neither am I!
Lately, I’m very into the quilting of quilts. I don’t actually like doing the quilting, but it is interesting how much the quilting affects the finished look of a quilt. It helps to enhance certain areas, or to draw the eye in. Quilting can add a lot of interest… and while I’m a solid quilter when it comes to piecing a quilt, adding that top layer of stitching, the quilting on top, is not a skill that I’ve mastered (yet). I am signed up for a class that promises to teach me more about the process, so I’m looking forward to getting better at it.
I think that one of the frustrating parts of getting better at quilting is that it takes practice. And learning from your mistakes. Which means making mistakes. And making mistakes when quilting a quilt that took hours (or days, or weeks) to put together… that’s just painful! Ugh!
In other news, I’m also making progress on my paper pieced hexagons… hopefully I’ll have something to share with you soon… ish!
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