Although I’ve not been blogging much this week, I have been busy. First of all, I decided to make a second Rose Star block. To go with this one, which I made months ago. I have a plan to use … Continue reading
Rose Star, Summer Picnic Dish and More
Category Archives: curved piecing
Looking Back
When we took the picture of the stack of quilt tops waiting to be quilted, we also took some of them out to the roof garden for their outdoors photo. First up was the crib size Dresden Plate quilt. This … Continue reading
Auditioning Fabrics
That’s what I was doing yesterday – auditioning fabrics for the Pickled Ladies edges as the Pickled Ladies centre is almost together now. It will be larger than it appears in this photo as I decided to add more rows … Continue reading
Summer Picnic Dish Again
After finishing the Colourful Crosspatch quilt, I wasn’t sure what I was going to work on next. The Summer Picnic Dish quilt won as it will grow quickly and I would love to see it finished before it’s too late … Continue reading
Will This Be The Next Top To Finish?
While I definitely want to get back to working on the Stormy Seas quilt top, I think after the POTC top is finished I’m going to need some curved piecing. That is, after all, my favourite. So the Summer Picnic … Continue reading
A Green Sunflower
This one makes me think of a sunflower that hasn’t opened yet, just all green. The back after pressing and grading the seams. That is 19 of the sunflowers done. One more and then I’ll put all the finished sunflowers … Continue reading
An Aztec Calendar Sunflower
This sunflower makes Mr. Q.O. think of an Aztec calendar. It makes me think of tropical water and bright sun. And it will be somewhere near the Caribbean sunflower when it comes time to arrange the blocks, I think. The … Continue reading
Three More Sunflowers – Lots of Pink
Three more to add to the growing stack of sunflowers were done over the past few days. One that makes me think of raspberries. Then one that might be a berry and orange fruit salad. And the last of the … Continue reading
A Caribbean Sunflower
For some reason, this one makes me think of the Caribbean. A comment left last week on one of the sunflower posts about the quilt being of different seasons of sunflowers has me thinking about possibly arranging the blocks by season when they’re all done. If I do that, this one would definitely be a summer one. It’s one of my favourite batiks. I was so glad I had enough of it left to make a sunflower.
With each one of these that I make, I’m finding it’s faster and faster to stitch. It used to be around a 4 or 5-hour stitch. Now I’ve got it down to about 3 hours from start to finish, including grading the seams and pressing.
Seams graded and the Caribbean summer sunflower pressed.
“Who Left the Porch Light On?”
He was stretched out on his kitty tree watching the gardeners out on the roof garden yesterday.
Very Subdued Sunflower
I said the next one was going to be subdued in comparison to yesterday’s orange sunflower. And this one is. But if I’m going for a colour-wash effect with these blocks, there will be some very subdued, muted sunflowers. I’m … Continue reading
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