Friday, April 15, 2016

Safari Stars

April 15, 2016

Mom made this quilt top many years ago.  It is based on the Pin Wheel pattern in the Quiltmaker magazine July/August 1998.  Karen had this magazine and if I remember correctly mom bought the fabric and started the project while visiting her on one of our many trips.  Although it looks correct I think it is missing a row in the middle of quilt  where diamonds are formed instead of triangles.  The fabric is a strip with lion, tigers, giraffes and other safari animals.  It is a great way how stars are formed with a strip fabric. 

This was my first quilt where I used the straight ruler on the mid-arm system.  I used it to go around the star and in the triangles increasing and decreasing.  It was great quilt to learn and practice on using a ruler.  My Bailey doesn't have large quilting bad and  took a bit to learn in keeping the ruler steady.

Size 66x75


Sunday, April 10, 2016

April 2016 Guild Block of Month

This was fun and easy. 

I made these two blocks


Here is the what the guild made.  I spoke to the coordinators and she said they forgot to add the additional information that the house portion of the block could be any traditional quilt block like a churn dash.  Oh well, I think it looks cool.