one-block happy dance
M Rimmer
stuffed - sorry, lovingly folded - into an envelope ready to send to its
eager recipient. There was no trick to getting it right - just go slow,
take care over 1/4" seams and matching points, and don't try to sew when
you're tired and addled.
Here is the block:
http://www.quilterscache.com/A_C/CardBasketBlock.html
except I made it 6.5" not 12.5". Mine is in Christmas colours, it's
supposed to resemble a poinsettia.
So now I'm working on finishing a WUH I started ages ago for my dad.
It's called 40 Shades of Green, it does include exactly 40 shades of
green, and they were a pain to keep track of I can tell you. Today I
added the borders, and discovered a spare piece of batting just the
right size, which is wonderful! So I'm going to do a little paperwork,
and then assemble the sandwich. And then i suppose I'll spend ages
trying to decide how to quilt it. It's an Irish-inspired quilt, and will
have Celtic-themed quilting. I want a knot going all round the border,
and I fancy one of those wonderful stylised animals, maybe in a large
circle, somewhere on it. Does anyone have any good (ideally online)
resources for quilting patterns like that, or just ideas i can steal
inspiration from?
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M Rimmer
Tina
scan em and send them to you if you like!
Tina
M Rimmer
<ti...@ogd-graphics.com> writes
>I have a book with tons of em! I will pick a few this afternoon and
>scan em and send them to you if you like!
That would be really kind and helpful, thanks. Could you also please
send me the details of the book? If I like the designs I might want to
buy it.
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M Rimmer
Tina
obsessive/mindless spending I guess) and they all have designs along
the lines you mentioned!
Did you have any particular animals in mind? Lots have dragons, or
lion looking creatures - fish - rabbits - cats - wild boar - lots of
birds - serpents - (one has nekkid ladies <gasp>).
One book I have is all animals! They aren't small in circles, but
whole page size - but if you liked any in particular you could just
shrink them down and use the pattern.....there's a really cool rooster!
Anyway, I'd be glad to help you out - if we can narrow it down. LOL
Tina
Tina
Celtic Animals Coloring Book - Mallory Pearce
Celtic Designs w/CD Rom - Dover Publications
Old English Tile Designs - Carol Belanger Grafton
Celtic Art Methods of Construction - George Bain
159 Celtic Designs - Amy Lusebrink
Celtic Design Coloring Book - Ed Sibbett, Jr.
Celtic Cut and Use Stencils - Co Spinhaven
If you can't find any of these at your local library - maybe a book
store? If you could look through them, and don't want to buy them -
you could let me know what pages you want and I could scan and send
them to you!
Tina
M Rimmer
<ti...@ogd-graphics.com> writes
Ooh - how exciting. The quilt is 4'x3' (landscape) which is a biggish
WUH, so I'm thinking fairly bold quilting designs. For the animal in the
circle I'm thinking about 12" across, a rooster sounds fun! And maybe
some other smaller things in circles, about 3"-6" across. A cross would
certainly be good. I don't really know what else you can get apart from
animals, crosses and knots. Maybe you can clue me in. Then I'm looking
for some kind of infill, such as a very big space-filling knot in a
mattress-pad effect, vanishing behind the circular motifs. I'm also
looking for knot patterns for the 3" border.
The quilt is an abstract landscape in a kind of watercolour effect. It's
alternating 4-patches and 9-patches, but the boundaries between the
squares is blurred because the same fabric might be used in a part of a
4-patch which is adjacent to the same fabric in part of the next
9-patch. I knew it was working when it became a real headache to count
the rows, you have to really concentrate to keep track of where one
4-patch stops and the next 9-patch begins. Does that description make
any sense?
So the quilting will deliberately not follow the lines of stitching at
all, but be an all-over affair, apart from the borders which will have a
knot design. So far my ideas are for one large circular motif in the top
left, a few smaller circular motifs scattered randomly, and a background
fill pattern (usually I'd just stipple but I hope I can find something
more celtic) Or I might get the willies and decide this is all getting
far too ambitious and just SITD!
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M Rimmer
Tina
How about we do this, let's take this off-group, I will reply to you
privately, exchange addresses and I just send a couple of the books to
you that I think have the most of what you are looking for. That way,
you can choose what you want, copy them and send me the books back!
How's that? LOL
Tina
M Rimmer
<ti...@ogd-graphics.com> writes
That would be great. Lets do that.
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M Rimmer
Sharon Harper
without buying them naughty???
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Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load)
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but
quicker)
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Tina
ssshhhhh, tip toeing away quietly.....
Tina