More Rose Dreams!

I posted about this block here! a couple of days ago.  I had completed 3 blocks during or shortly after the workshop I attended in October 2009!




I am pleased to say I have now doubled my total to six!




Here they are displayed together - not yet stitched together as I am waiting to see how the other blocks will fit in!

I am loving the pattern across the blocks and the dark, medium and light value that is beginning to show with just the two colours. 


What I forgot to tell you before is the white fabric is an old sheet so I am doing a bit of recycling as well.



The quilt pattern is for 36 blocks so I am one sixth of the way there...!  I don't know whether to be happy or sad at this news....???




Nicky

I love scrap quilts!

It's true, but it also happens to be the name of a course I attended in October 2009 at my LQs, this time with Margaret Hughes.

This is a handsewn block worked in two colours.  I have kept to blue and white for my blocks although I think Margaret's blocks were different pastel colours.

I have only completed three blocks but have enjoyed learning the technique of sewing curves. I started making these blocks while waiting for the children to do a swimming class or some such thing.  They do less classes now so I don't take this with me enough, obviously - probably distracted by the two other hand pieced quilts I have now got to the quilting stage.


I have cut out lots of blocks which I haven't succeeded in sewing yet.  It might be quicker if I changed to sewing on the machine but I'm not sure about those curves???

Imagine my surprise when leafing through the Jan Halgrimson book I posted about recently and I saw this:

So now I know the name of the block - Rose Dream - or at least one name...!

As this is my last hand stitching quilt in progress I should really push on with it and get all those pieces I carefully cut out stitched together.

Nicky