After a spring of way too much travel (Andy to China and me to the Netherlands for work-more about that soon!) and family weddings in Connecticut and Iowa, and Seth's graduation from high school, I hope to have some serious sewing time before I start preparing for fall classes.
Lori over at Humble Quilts is doing another sew-a-long. It is a free formed medallion with a basket theme, inspired by Gwen Marston's style.
I free-cut some shapes with graph paper, then used Pellon middle weight 40 sew-in stabilizer to make faced shapes, cutting an X in the back and turning them right side out. I made some bias stems.
It is machine appliquéd with a straight stitch.
At this point it measures 18 1/2 inches. The next step theme is childhood--I'm thinking pinwheels!
You can see the other basket blocks at:
http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2016/06/gwennie-inspired-medallion-qal.html
Wow, do glad you're back, I was beginning to worry. :) Lovely block.
ReplyDeleteLovely block. Pinwheels sounds good too.
ReplyDeleteNice block! Glad you are joining in with the medallion project. Your blog is new to me and I will look you up on blog lovin. Love the name of it! I too have a son who just graduated high school. Milestones... And my how time flies!
ReplyDeleteI so wanted to join that sew along! I managed to restrain myself thoug.... I must do some finishing, I must do som finishing..... but it is so much fun to start new projects!!!! I will enjoy watching everybody's progress though. You block is very nice and pinwheels sounds like a good choice!
ReplyDeleteOops, I missed some letters, sorry about that! :)
ReplyDeleteLove your free cut templates - make for a very "Gwennie" block. Love it.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty basket block. Looking forward to seeing your childhood and log cabin rounds :)
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