Working on projects from the past.
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| Tumbling Stars |
Two years ago in July of 2014, I mixed tumbling blocks with stars and made this small quilt top. (
Tumbling Stars July 2014 ) I told myself at the time that I would square it up with neutrals. Well here I am in June of 2016. While looking through my UFO's last month, trying to figure out what I wanted to do next, I made this marvelous discovery. There is was, still waiting for the square up. When something that old is found, it's like a special gift and new again. After doing some thinking and figuring, I finally just today got it properly squared.
All of my piecing was done with patches made with the help of
Inklingo. It's all hand pieced. The Stars were pieced using the 60 degree 1.0 inch Hexagon collection together with the Star Point 1.0/2.0 inch add on collection. The tumbling blocks were made with the 60 degree Diamond 2 inch collection. The neutral square up was made with the same collections plus the 60 degree 2 and 4 inch triangle collection. I'm still using my stash and haven't purchased any new material to make this top.
I'm now trying to decide on whether or not to put in some colored borders. It seems the colors are floating in there with nothing to tie them together. Hopefully it won't take me another two years to make a decision on that.
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| Tumbling Stars Squared with Neutrals |
Once I decide on borders I'll be hand quilting it to finish up. I've been enjoying hand quilting lately. I haven't done much of it in the last 2 years, but loving it now. Like hand piecing, it is very relaxing. I finished up this very old wall hanging last month...A small project with little thought required while I figured out the squaring up of Tumbling Stars.
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| 3 Block Sampler from copyright1983 |
I pieced this wall hanging way before Linda Franz came up with Inklingo. I used Paper Pieces pattern that I found at a local quilt shop in the late 90's. Must have been hanging around that shop for a while since the copyright says 1983.
While I'm thinking up what more to do with the Tumbling Stars, I'll pull out another small project to hand quilt. In the mean time, I'll leave the Tumbling Stars on my design wall and peek at it now and then until I'm inspired.
Bye for now from Central Florida, (where my rain gauge measured 14 inches this morning from yesterday and overnight rain thanks to tropical storm Colin).
