last Saturday, with 14 friends each making our own version of a tessellating quilt. The one we made was from the book called “Square Dance” by Martha Thompson. It is so much fun to make, although a little tedious sewing all those squares together.
I made mine using 6” squares from my stash ( hurrah – a bit more used up) After sewing them altogether, you re-cut using a template drawn from the book. After the blocks are re-cut they are so forgiving to sew back together as all the seams are on the bias. You loose about a third in Size I was told – in actual fact I measured Before and after, and my squares plus first border measured 78”. After re-sewing it measured approx. 58”.
Sorry it wasn’t held very straight ( it’s hard to get good help these days – haha)
Its small for me, although I still have a couple of borders to add, and I wanted this little quilt as a quilt for my bed, when I go to Retreats.
I also found a top in my collection, that needed to be quilted so I did just that for my MIL who is 93.
Below are a few photos of my friends tessellating quilts
As you can see they are all looking good. The two on the right were made with 10” squares.
Thanks for dropping by
I made mine using 6” squares from my stash ( hurrah – a bit more used up) After sewing them altogether, you re-cut using a template drawn from the book. After the blocks are re-cut they are so forgiving to sew back together as all the seams are on the bias. You loose about a third in Size I was told – in actual fact I measured Before and after, and my squares plus first border measured 78”. After re-sewing it measured approx. 58”.
Sorry it wasn’t held very straight ( it’s hard to get good help these days – haha)
Its small for me, although I still have a couple of borders to add, and I wanted this little quilt as a quilt for my bed, when I go to Retreats.
I also found a top in my collection, that needed to be quilted so I did just that for my MIL who is 93.
Below are a few photos of my friends tessellating quilts
As you can see they are all looking good. The two on the right were made with 10” squares.
Thanks for dropping by
5 comments:
What a great idea to make a quilt to take on retreats and a great piecing project to boot!!! I have seen this before, and I love the effect!! Your MIL's quilt is wonderful too, so colourful! I'm sure she will be delighted with it!!!
These Square Dance quilts are great! I really like the scrappy ones! Wow. They look fantastic! I have the book but have made only one planned quilt from it. Hope Quilters (at church) just finished making several plain patchy quilts, similar to your pre-tesselated version - to donate to Joplin, Missouri tornado victims. Boring when compared to your very interesting looking tesselated version. Thank you for this super inspiration!
always nice to wake up to view a little quilt show!
Karen
http://karensquilting.com/blog/
Love the tesselating tops, very clever.
I have got to get mine quilted! I love each and every one of yours!
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