Making this quilt was a lot of fun. I began with the geranium fabric at the top of this posting. Carefully cutting and stacking the fabric to cause the repeats to come in exactly the same places, I made a stack of eight like fabrics, then cut strips to further cut triangles and squares that create the octagons and the squares. No two blocks are alike! Plotting placement on a big design wall, and taking a while to get what I felt was the best design took a while, but the results are very satisfying. Each patch truly looks like the wonderful pictures we would get in the old kaleidoscope. The quilt is still not quite finished - it needs a little more border work, and, of course, the final quilting and binding. Size of the quilt at present is 51" x 56"
Making this quilt was a lot of fun. I began with the geranium fabric at the top of this posting. Carefully cutting and stacking the fabric to cause the repeats to come in exactly the same places, I made a stack of eight like fabrics, then cut strips to further cut triangles and squares that create the octagons and the squares. No two blocks are alike! Plotting placement on a big design wall, and taking a while to get what I felt was the best design took a while, but the results are very satisfying. Each patch truly looks like the wonderful pictures we would get in the old kaleidoscope. The quilt is still not quite finished - it needs a little more border work, and, of course, the final quilting and binding. Size of the quilt at present is 51" x 56"
4 comments:
That is a work of art! Beyond anything I could ever do. I couldn't imagine it in my mind so it's nice to see the picture, but can't wait to see it for real.
What fun!
Your organizing skills have created a beauty.
It's simply beautiful, Grandma! The design is amazing - now I know where my mom gets her mathematician side :-)
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