Allô and welcome 😊 It's a lovely day out - not too cold, cloudy some new snow, but not as much as yesterday! The snow made for a lousy driving day but we did what needed done, including a visit to our Poppy 🐕That means that today I'm hibernating in my studio. Yay!
Easy curves for SAHRR Round 4
Today it's Wendy, from Pieceful Wendy who is hosting and deciding on our theme. Yes, it was curves. Not my idea of fun, so I read a few posts and found Brenda's choice of block excellent. It's a faux Cathedral Window. I made 4 of them based on the tutorial Brenda mentioned. I now have another 8" block.
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| Faux Cathedral Windows |
Here is the SAHRR so far.
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| Four round of blocks and the centre block |
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| Another look at some of the blocks |
What I learned
- I'm not used to watching videos to learn to make a new block. Now I know why I prefer a written tutorial with images. The video was fine but there were important details that if you didn't pick up while watching, made life a little harder. For instance:
- The folded fabric needed to be folded right sides out (or wrong sides together). Since the author was using batiks, that didn't come up.
- Then, when the block was put together, it was sewn on the side, not the bottom.
- I'm just including these notes so that I'll have a guide if I ever want to make more of these blocks.
- I have no idea where I'm going with these blocks so far. I think that I'd like to make more of the round 3 Chicago geese blocks, although possibly smaller.
- I'm just going to let it percolate - maybe inspiration will hit!
Related links |
| Round 4 |
Linking parties
I Quilted This!
Welcome to the
I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it! Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and feel free to grab the button.
Gwyned Trefethen made a wonderful art piece for last week's Project Quilting.
Channeling Andy Warhol is machine embroidered and the background is FMQ using the McTavish design. You'll want to check out Gwyned's post for more details!
Gail of Quilting Gail finished and quilted a quilt for a very special friend. You'll want to read the story of this special quilt on
Gail's post.
Sally of Crafts, Cavies and Cooking made a cute
seahorse postcard for the latest Project Quilting challenge.
Preeti of Sew Preeti Quilts made an amazing
Rock & Roll t-shirt quilt. You'll want to read her post to find out how she did it. I love the checkerboard coping strips that are also made of t-shirt fabric.
If you missed it, I made a small quilt for
Project Quilting last week. It's based on my quilting goals for 2026 - scrappy, small, playful and experimental.
It's now your turn 😍
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