In 2002 MeSue set a monthly challenge
and I took part in:
Miniature March
For this one I made
Po's quilt but a month too
late!
April Attic Windows
Right at the end of April I managed to make a 16 block Attic Windows
panel.
I added the borders and completed this on June 9th 2002 and
my mother received on her birthday June 11th! More details
and pictures
here.
See other interpretations of this challenge
here.
(After the April showers come the) May Flowers
Sue's original idea was for us to make something using Rebecca Wat's
Folded
Flower Technique, but any other "floral" theme was OK too.
The fabrics I had received in the RCTQ Spring Floral Swap were a good
starting
point so I decided to make a floral sampler quilt (or at least the
blocks
for it) mostly using blocks from Marcia Hohn's superb site
The Quilter's Cache, but with
a few picked up from elsewhere.
Here are my blocks as at 15th May:-
Top center -
Double
Tulip Variation
Top Left -
Cactus Flower, Top
Right -
Clover Blossom
Centre -
Rosebud
Bottom Left -
Baby Bud, Bottom
Right -
Texas Rose
Bottom Centre -
Starflower
Here are the last five blocks:-
Top Left -
Nosegay, Top Right -
Magnolia Bud
Centre -
Thistle Bloom
Bottom Left -
Flower Basket,
Bottom Right -
Tulip
These blocks were a race against time -
On 29th May I made Magnolia Bud and Nosegay. On 30th May I made
Tulip, by
Mary Jobe Mason,
and cut and marked the pieces for Flower Basket from
Cranston Village and by
midday on 31st May Flower Basket was complete. On the stroke of
midnight
of 31st May I finished pressing Thistle Bloom, from
Quilters' Village, thus
completing my 12 blocks right on the deadline!
This is the planned layout on point:
I have now completed setting the blocks on point so I do at least
have a finished quilt top. As you can see the quilt top has been
inspected by Blackbean, but all I got was an inscrutable look. I
suspect it won't pass quality control until it is quilted and bound and
that could be a long wait......
Update: This top was quilted professionally while I on a
trip to the USA in April 2004, now it needs binding and it will then be raffled in
support of
Cancer Research
UK.
MeSue sadly lost her fight against the Big C in the Autumn of 2003 and
I can think of no finer cause to support with this quilt that would not
exist if it wasn't for her.
Jewel Box June
Jewel Box is a pattern by
Jinny
Beyer, that is also on the
Quilter's
Cache
website. I rather like the pastel interpretation on QC and am
thinking
of trying something similar but on a brighter blue background. In
the
image below there are some colour gaps that need to be filled in.
In the end I made one Jewel box block which I used as the centre block
in my RCTQ Round Robin. My RR was worked on by Sandi , Aynex and
Karen. MeSue had just received it when the bad news of her
diagnosis came through and her chemo prevented her doing her
"round". I added the final border in Sue's honour in the late
summer of 2003 and finally finshed the quilting & binding in April
2004.
The centre block showing some of my wobbly free motion machine quilting
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The finished article - can you work out where the four borders were added?
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I have also finished a quilt using 12 Jewel Box blocks - more pictures and details on my main quilting page.
