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| Canada Quilt by Michelle Gagné |
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| Quilts completed for Canada`s Biggest Quilt Bee |
As for Canada`s Biggest Quilt Bee, our guild members have completed over 30 quilts and over a hundred blocks. I handed in my 6 blocks at the meeting since I`m not likely to finish a quilt top before they send these to Toronto.
The postcard quilt made last fall by guild members is part of the Eastern Ontario Inter-Guild Canada 150 Celebration Trunk Show. It will be travelling across eastern Ontario and can be seen at local quilt shows. If you live in the area, look out for it!
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| Common Thread Quilt Guild Canada 150 Postcard Quilt |
Since hosting these Celebrate - Fêtons 150 posts, I figured that I should be working on something for the celebrations. Do you remember this free pattern of the Canada 150 logo? Well, it's coming along. The paper piecing went well, although I learned a lot (from my many mistakes). Not the pattern's fault. I also want to make it longer to include the words "Canada 150, 1867 - 2017". |
| This picture has 2 obvious mistakes.. can you spot them? |
This first image is both pre-ironed and pre-fixed - if you enlarge it, you may see that there is a piece of white missing between the top blue and yellow pieces. That was the easy mistake to fix. I used the Crafted Appliqué method to add a small piece of white fabric. It will be fine once it's quilted.
The other obvious mistake is not easily fixed. I would have had to start that section over and undo a lot more since I didn't realize my mistake until I started putting the sections together. We all make mistakes and I can live with this one. It sure will make my logo easy to spot compared to anyone else's!
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| Canada 150 logo - all paper pieced |
Here are a few other quilty ideas found on the internet,
Maple Leaf Quilt Block Flag by denna's ideas
Denna made this for the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag a couple of years ago. She explains how she did it in her blog. (See the link in Related Links below)
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| Maple Leaf Quilt Block Flag by denna's ideas |
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| Purely Canadian Quilt Pattern by Quilts by Jen |
Purely Canadian Quilt Pattern by Quilts by Jen
Here is another quilt pattern celebrating aspects of Canada.
What I learned
- It always takes me a while to get into paper piecing. It's like I partially forget how to do it.
- The Canada 150 logo was relatively easy to follow, but I did find it tricky to put the finished pieces together. I don't think that it was the pattern, rather I need to stop when I'm tired before I make all of those mistakes!
- I did make a few mistakes - some that I could easily fix and others that I would have had to start the pieces over. Since I could live with the mistakes, I decided to leave the piece as is. We can call them slight creative modifications :-)
- I'm happy to report that I've found space in my home for a couple of the art quilts I recently made. It's great to live with them!
Related Links
- Common Thread Quilt Guild - more photos of the quilts made for Canada's Biggest Quilt Bee and the Postcard Quilt in our April newsletter.
- Festival of Quilts 2017
- Free paper pieced pattern of the Canada 150 logo by Dana Szucs Hayde of SeaSew
- Maple Leaf Quilt Block Flag by denna's ideas
- Purely Canadian Quilt Pattern by Quilts by Jen
- Sew Fresh Quilts by Lorna
- Celebrate - Fêtons 150 in April
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Beautiful blocks and inspiring lessons! Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Alida, I'm so impressed with everyone's creativity in celebrating with quilts!
DeleteI have that logo pattern downloaded for, like EVER, and still can't find time to get it done. Must do! I cannot spot the other 'obvious' mistake...yay for Crafted Appliqué! Joanne at Canuck Quilter has a great 150 Canada quilt on her blog, Canuck Quilter, and I appear to have a QAL that is rather Canadian in theme, as some people are doing it for Canada's birthday (and I now need/want to!) :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Sandra, good luck with the QAL - if you make it, be sure to link to the Celebrate - Fêtons 150! The second mistake is in one of the green sections. If you compare it to the orange, you'll spot the mistake. I'm thrilled that it's not as obvious as I thought!
DeleteThis is like an 'eye spy' quilt....I can't see the second mistake. :) The block looks good the way it is. Thanks for linking to MCM!
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth, I'm surprised that it's not obvious, but then when you work on something, the mistake just flashes at you! Check out the green section and compare it with the orange one. You'll find it!
DeleteIt is so much fun to see all of the celebration quilts that are being made - they are all so beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing these on Midweek Makers, and do continue to share more!
ReplyDeleteThanks Susan. I surely will.
DeleteThat is the coolest block!
ReplyDeleteThanks Em, wait till you see it finished. I'll be posting the finished piece tomorrow!
DeleteThe quilt and block are so lovely! The block is so colorful! Thank you so much for sharing such joyful projects!
ReplyDeleteThanks Miaismine. Aren't all of these project amazing? Everyone is going all out for the celebrations!
DeleteI love that pixelated maple leaf--what a cool logo! And I didn't see either of your mistakes, so you're all good! I have often noticed that I'm usually the only one who spots my "mistakes" anyway! <3
ReplyDeleteThanks Kitty - you're right. Our "mistakes" glare at us but other people don't usually notice (except my son!).
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