It's nearly Christmas so of course I'm making a totally impromptu quilt!
My clever Siblings Together beemate Mary Emmens has designed a fabulous Welsh blanket quilt pattern. It is gorgeous and reminds me so much of the doublesided Welsh blankets I fell in love with at the Ardingly Antiques Fair I went to years ago. I confess I even bought a few.
So when I saw Mary's quilt pattern I just had to volunteer to test it for her.
So although I'm using my stash this project isn't a scrappy one!
But the one on my other design wall is....
These blocks were donated to Siblings Together by another lovely beemate Catherine!
As you can see there are a few still needed to make a quilt - I'm going to copy Catherine, making some really scrappy ones - scrappy coloured bits and backgrounds!
So here is my beginning - sorting out a whole pile of low volume scraps and ironing them flat. Now I only need to stitch them into long strips and trim to 2 1/2" wide. Then repeat with the coloured strips!
You know what I've been and will be up to - now it's your turn...
My clever Siblings Together beemate Mary Emmens has designed a fabulous Welsh blanket quilt pattern. It is gorgeous and reminds me so much of the doublesided Welsh blankets I fell in love with at the Ardingly Antiques Fair I went to years ago. I confess I even bought a few.
So when I saw Mary's quilt pattern I just had to volunteer to test it for her.
So although I'm using my stash this project isn't a scrappy one!
But the one on my other design wall is....
These blocks were donated to Siblings Together by another lovely beemate Catherine!
As you can see there are a few still needed to make a quilt - I'm going to copy Catherine, making some really scrappy ones - scrappy coloured bits and backgrounds!
So here is my beginning - sorting out a whole pile of low volume scraps and ironing them flat. Now I only need to stitch them into long strips and trim to 2 1/2" wide. Then repeat with the coloured strips!
You know what I've been and will be up to - now it's your turn...
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I love your new quilt (yes, everyone, she has permission for a new start, even if it was granted retrospectively!) and am looking forward to seeing it finished ;o) Will have to have a think about a scrappy project to link up...
ReplyDeleteI like both those projects a lot! But if I had to choose I'd probably go with the scrappy one! Love the low volume background. I've got a lot of those kind of scraps! Thanks for hosting Scraptastic Tuesday! It's a lot of fun to visit all the various sites! Happy Holidays! cheers!
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