Hello Quilty Friends! After a week of this quilt hanging on my longarm I finally found(made) the time to take a picture. This is the quilt I thought I quilted and gifted to my daughter about nine years ago. Last Monday I shared a peek inside my quilt designing brain while I tried to come up with a plan for a new quilt using the same basic basket block in red, white and blues. I'm happy to finally announce I have a final quilt design! Woohoo!
The drawing was made in EQ8. It's a rough drawing of the blocks and arcs. I just didn't want to take the time to make it look exactly like the real blocks. You can see the real blocks and see more about the designing process for this quilt by clicking here.
The flower applique on the border arcs may change once the arcs are glued in place. Using the same size flower on the border as in blocks makes for a ton of work. The original quilt has one large flower instead of a cluster of flowers. But it also doesn't have flowers in the basket block. I'm wondering if a larger flower might look odd when I have small flowers in the baskets. We'll just have to wait and see.
Now that I have a plan, last night I started doing the math for the quilt. And wouldn't you know it, I'm short 17 arcs. Remember this quilt was started in 2019 and it was a different plan.
So I dug through the project bin to see if had enough scraps to make more arcs. If not I can pull from the stash.
Hallelujah! Jackpot! I found more assembled arcs and extra wedges to make more arcs! Yeehaw! Yes, even as I tell you this I get the same giddy feeling and do a happy dance wiggle in my chair.
For those of you that want see how this quilt came to be from the very beginning about nine years ago I searched my blog and found two blog post. The first one is how I came up the idea for the basket block from a vintage block. Click here. The vintage block and my first idea to recreate the block are both very different than the blocks in my two quilts above.
The second link is a year after it became a UFO in 2016. Click here.
She's a beautiful quilt, can't wait to see the finish! Your daughter will be happy to receive her quilt too. Happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteI get what you're saying about it being a lot more work, but I really, REALLY like your design with the clusters of smaller flowers. Congratulations on moving this beauty along! And congrats on finding the additional arcs and wedges you need -- nothing worse than discovering you're short fabric on something that's been in progress way too long for any of the fabrics to still be available in quilt shops!
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