Thursday, February 13, 2020

A Seven Day Quilt Top in Just Seven Weeks

Just after Christmas, I saw a Mystery QAL on Kim Lapacek's Blog Persimmon Dreams. A one week quilt along, how hard could it be.

Today, I finished my top. Surprise, it's giant spools of thread.



It is much bigger than I expected. The top is 32" x 52". The blocks just kind of grew.



The first block was the 8" square in the middle of this block. I thought that it was going to be a pretty easy quilt. Eventually we added the top and bottom of the spool and some background fabric to make all the blocks the same height.


Block two, is an elongated churn dash.


Block 3, flying geese.



Block 4 is a square in a square, and I had to add some cats.



Block 5 is an elongated version of a block I have done before but I don't remember what it's called.

It was lots of fun to make the whole top from my scraps. Now that I have it all together, I need to find a backing and quilt it.  I wonder what I have in my "What was I thinking?" collection.


3 comments:

  1. That's a fun piece! Could be used for a machine cover.

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  2. Pieces of threads!!! Love the colours and every block, a beauty .

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  3. Very interesting and unexpected blocks? It looks great, an addition to adorn your sewing room! Now you can quilt it with funky quilting, all relating to the craft...

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