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| Four-patch Chain quilt from "Mini Charm Quilts" from Moda. |
What? I was making a 'grow it' version of a Freddy and Gwen style quilt. How did this happen? It's a long story, beginning with the letter "S". It is all Bonnie's fault. At our February meeting, in Kuna, Bonnie showed some slides/videos about piecing letters of the alphabet. I have pieced letters before, and I have always believed the letter "S" to be the most difficult to piece. Bonnie left us with a challenge to piece your name, or some letters for the next meeting. As it happens, she was out of the country for the March meeting, and I was the only one who actually brought pieced letters to the meeting. Is there something wrong with me?
Well, I started with a grid and did piece the letter "S". I used 1.5 inch squares, that when pieced became 1 inch squares. Then, I had to piece something to go with the S to spell a word or something. I decided to grow it into a Freddy Moran/Gwen Marston sort of creation, but limiting myself to red, white, and blue. That did, indeed, take off, but then I wanted to do a pieced border with on-point four patches. But first I needed an eye-resting border of very dark blue. I had no very dark blue that would work, so I had to go to the Quilt Crossing and see if I could find some very dark blue fabric. Well, I did. I also found some wild animal fabric that was screaming out for the bright blue polka dot fabric to go with it. So, I bought the fabulous wild animal fabric and bright blue polka dot fabric (which has nothing to do with my current project). Then when I get home, I think, "This is blue! I could put it in my Freddy/Gwen style quilt. My auditioning did not make me happy. I also needed to know how to make the correct size of triangles to place my four-patches on point. I checked the Four-patch Chain quilt in my (relatively new) book, and decided to do a dry-run to learn about the triangles and see how the bright blue polka dot fabric would look with other red, white, and blue fabrics. I did the whole quilt top on Sunday. I have figured out the triangle part (with no help from the pattern, as it did not address that part . . . and a few other parts), but decided the bright blue polka dots was probably not a good background fabric for the other four patch blocks. I did accomplish my mission, with regards to the planning of my quilt growth. Now back to growing my red, white, and blue quilt with the letter "S". Bonnie . . .
