Although pompoms have almost
totally taken over my life at the moment, I am still trying to work away at
other things too. I bought some lovely
Oakshott cotton last summer with the intention of making a log cabin
quilt. The red fat eighths were for the
centres and then the blues were to be the ‘logs’. The quilt would have been finished now, but I
decided that plain centres were not as interesting as I wanted, so I decided to
make little 36 patches to go in the middle.
I must be mad! The centres of
course took ages and are slightly less than 100% accurate, but I think it will
all add to the final feeling of the quilt.
I wanted 20 blocks for the
quilt, and due to a miscalculation (I forgot seam allowances for some silly
reason), I ended up with twelve centres from my first batch. I thought I had made the other eight, but
last time I counted, I was only up to 17 blocks in total. Since then, I have not dared count as it
would be rather depressing to think I still have three more full blocks to
make. The blocks are at various stages,
which I like as it fools me in to believing there is slightly less work than I
was expecting to be done...
2 comments:
Your pieced centres are delightful! Adds texture to a traditional pattern, rather like an old stone hearth (which, as you know, the red symbolizes): hearth and home. You don't give dimensions...are those squares-to-make-a-square really tiny?
Thanks Margaret. The blocks are 12in finished size, so each one of those squares is 1in - not small for a miniature specialist, but small enough for me!
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