I saw a picture online and thought I could recreate it for Pat’s birthday card. It isn’t exactly the same but I’m pleased with the way it turned out. The musical note fabric was from the Guild challenge last year; I bought more than the fat quarter we were given in our challenge packets and I’ve used it a few times.
When I was looking for something else (isn’t that always the way) I found some hangars that Mum had for her cross stitch projects. I had to work to make the width of the card match the width of the hanger; at every step in the process I worried that I hadn’t done the math right.
I’m hoping Pat will hang it in the studio on Texada.
This is the third project I’ve completed since I started sewing with the Thursday group. I originally thought I would donate this to the Member Appreciation event at Cranberry Hall (the backing is some musical-notation fabric) but once it was done I decided I wanted to keep it for myself.
The star itself is paper pieced and the quilting idea for the corners came from an on-line free-motion quilting challenge I’m keeping track of. I added some meandering in the set-in triangle pieces around the star. The loops in the border came from a quilting book I have in my own library and the quilting in the yellow corners is my own design.
I didn’t really plan to make Valentine cards this year; I was going to use an e-card for my family. However Deloise inspired me with a card she made and I thought I should do a few as well.
Each of these finished about 9″
The patterns I used are all ones that I had admired over the last few years and this was a chance to make some of them. Although I took apart the one on the right a couple of times I think I could improve on the pattern by extending the heart shapes to the border on each side.
Finished Size: 12″ square
Stars are a favourite design so I couldn’t resist this one that included a heart. I see now that I should have had all those background hearts heading in the same direction.
Finished Size: 11″ x 20″
I made a table topper for Pat’s Valentine, and not only because I wanted something to display at our upcoming House Concert on the 16th.
We have two months between miniature quilt meetings so why am I always working on my project in the few days before each meeting?
Finished Size: 21.5″ x 25″
The rail-fence blocks were done a long time ago – leftover scraps from a table runner, a chair cover and a bunch of neutrals I had in my bin. I always intended to make something with them and when I looked for a project for our meeting the idea of getting a bin of blocks off my table really appealed.
I made the pattern up myself. I was hoping for more of a shadow box look to the blocks; perhaps I need to have the border colours the same width. I think my Second Time Around (Splendid Sampler) will be done with shadow boxes so I’ll find a different tutorial when I start putting those together. I have to admit though that when I see the photo it does give a bit of the effect I was going for.
The “feathers” (and I use the term loosely) were my first attempt at them. Some are better than others but since I was keeping this for myself I decided they were good enough.
The name of the quilt comes from the 40 pieces of fabric that make up the centre squares in each of the blocks.
In 2016 our Guild hosted an event involving the Guilds on the Island and along the Sunshine Coast. I used some of these same blocks in a miniature quilt that was part of a raffle basket.
I saw a picture online and thought I could recreate it for Pat’s birthday card. It isn’t exactly the same but I’m pleased with the way it turned out. The musical note fabric was from the Guild challenge last year; I bought more than the fat quarter we were given in our challenge packets and I’ve used it a few times.
