Artful Homemade Quilts Have A Way

[freedombecki]

All 24 blocks are done for the Green points of Light Quilt:

Scan 1 - Block 1

Scan 2 - Block 2

Scan 3 - Block 3

 

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Scan 1 - Block 4

Scan 2 - Block 5

Scan 3 - Block 6

 

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Scan 1 - Block 7

Scan 2 - Block 8

Scan 3 - Block 9

 

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Scan 1 - Block 10

Scan 2 - Block 11

Scan 3 - Block 12

 

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Scan 1 - Block 13

Scan 2 - Block 14

Scan 3 - Block 15

 

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Scan 1 - Block 16

Scan 2 - Block 17

Scan 3 - Block 18

 

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Scan 1 - Block 19

Scan 2 - Block 20

Scan 3 - Block 21

 

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Scan 1 - Block 22

Scan 2 - Block 23

Scan 3 - Block 24

 

[freedombecki]

Now all that needs to be done is sew squares together, add border. Simple!

And I have no way of showing what it will be like except to show a few log cabins that were out there online this morning with light-colored points (and there weren't many and NO points of lights quilt like the diagram):

 

[freedombecki]

The center is now almost ready to have dark log squares put at top and bottom to make this the start for a child-sized quilt. borders help make the quilt larger, the more logs, the merrier. The last red Points of Light Log Cabin Star done just a couple of days ago was about 38 to 40" wide and only 54 - 56" long. It's a great hugs crib quilt, but a child-sized one should be a little larger. So the border is a challenge to be considered, whether to do a little more slave labor or just make large strippy borders.

An attempt was made in scanning to put them in the order they will be in on the quilt for the top row and the center so the large dark center can be seen. So far, I love this one, and the use of only one light fabric doesn't bother me a bit and adds to the lightness of the star points, as they are almost like a corolla of the sun in full eclipse on this one.

Not sure if it's left to right or right to left, but these 3 scans are hopefully in a row:

 

[freedombecki]

This one hopefully shows the center dark area okay.

 

[Sunshine]

After living in the Equality State for 35 years, those colors are like home to me. In Laramie there is this school...

Cool.

 

[Sunshine]

This one hopefully shows the center dark area okay.

I would be drunk at the end of the day after doing something like that!

 

[koshergrl]

Got the chickens done:

 

[koshergrl]

After living in the Equality State for 35 years, those colors are like home to me. In Laramie there is this school...

Change it to red, brown and black and it is the Pendleton Round-Up logo...

 

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Pendleton Woolen mills did a commemorative blanket for the 100 year anniversary...I have see the real ones but here is a weirdly skewed pic:

 

[koshergrl]

Flower towel that my 10 year old daughter is working on; she did the last few stitches with too many threads so that will probably come out and be re-done, but she has done a remarkable job. I love towels and pillowcases because they are often quite simple, with only one or two stitches and a couple of colors. I started my first piece at the age of 7; a simple cross-stitch dresser scarf that had a heart pattern; red and black. I don't think I ever finished it! But I learned cross stitch, lazy dazy and outline stitching.

This is the one I worked on a day or so ago; then my nephew's girlfriend picked it up and it's almost finished. She's a needle-pointer:

Haha I did the "saturday" stitching...at Mom's, in dim light, as is apparent.

 

[freedombecki]

Got the chickens done:

Oh, Koshergrl, isn't that just too darn cute! My sister has chickens in her kitchen. I oughta do something like that using my sewing machine, which has a stem stitch and a triple straight stitch, both of which look great with size thirty cotton DMC machine embroidery thread (and several others in recent years). I'm glad you followed up a start with a picture. Your mother will be thrilled if they're for her. In one of my books on victorian applique, I designed a Rhode Island Red rooster, which would look good in sewing machine blackwork. I may drag out my stuff and do that sometime soon!

I love your inspiring work and so glad you shared it.

 

[freedombecki]

This one hopefully shows the center dark area okay.

I would be drunk at the end of the day after doing something like that!

Well, what I didn't show last night was my lil mistakie. I sewed the 4th row on upside down. Before I hit the pillow last night, I had to rip and redo.

It doesn't matter how long you've been quilting, you still have to pay attention or get in touch with your @#&!#* 1.5mm seam ripper, if you can find it. Nature has its own way of dealing with space cadetism in the sewing room.

This morning I got up and added the dark top and bottom rows, and selected some fabrics to do borders. I found some cute frogies, but they're not wonderful with the pale light green points. The reason I am likely to use it is to remind the next crew that indeed, it is a child's shelter quilt, because the froggies were found hopping among bolts of baby fabrics when I grabbed it off the shelf at Lone Star Quilts in Bryan/College Station last year sometime. Don't know why I love froggies so, but all the green quilts always have at least one of the little amphibians peeking out of a log or square somewhere in the quilt. These froggies are packed so well, they'll be seen as an army on any strip larger than 2.5 inches. They're less than an inch across. I haven't cut the fabric yet, so what the heck, I might as well get the fabric and scan it along with the repaired and added rows, or whatever parts get scanned (you can only see the squarish tips of the star points):

 

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Got the chickens done:

Oh, Koshergrl, isn't that just too darn cute! My sister has chickens in her kitchen. I oughta do something like that using my sewing machine, which has a stem stitch and a triple straight stitch, both of which look great with size thirty cotton DMC machine embroidery thread (and several others in recent years). I'm glad you followed up a start with a picture. Your mother will be thrilled if they're for her. In one of my books on victorian applique, I designed a Rhode Island Red rooster, which would look good in sewing machine blackwork. I may drag out my stuff and do that sometime soon!

I love your inspiring work and so glad you shared it.

They're just the commercial transfers, but they are so much fun; simple enough and inexpensive enough that I can finish them quickly and move on to the next; and people do love them. I love them...I always need more because I end up giving them all away. I made another, very simple one that was just a pot of basil, for my sister but didn't get a picture. I used much larger stitches as I was busier that day and wanted to make sure it was completely done before the end. It was a large transfer though; her towels are very sheer gauze flour sacks 28 x 29, I think; not the heavy ones like I found for mom. They were the only ones I could find though so we went with them, and she likes them; she's a cook too and likes any form of flour sack..the secret is quantity. The embroidery adds some substance to them.