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Tag: ice pops
It’s not even worth putting in the episode guide. I think I’m cursed with this quilt. I don’t know what kind of karmic mojo I’ve got coming to me, but I finally took the quilt in to be quilted and found out that I am too late to have it done for Christmas! I knew it would take about 5 weeks, but what hadn’t ever occurred to me was that everyone and their grandmother is getting stuff quilted this time of year. So the shop and all the home-grown quilters they knew with long arm machines have met their quota of projects to take in for this holiday season. Agh!
Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4, Crete Quilt 5, Crete Quilt 6, Crete Quilt 7, Crete Quilt Pt. 8.
I’ve been working on the Crete Quilt for so long now that I’ve got crafter’s block again for anything else. I finished the quilt top and basted that, the batting, and the back together. It really is more of a full than a queen, but oh well. The book uses a great cross-hatch pattern that I’m finding impossible to measure out myself, so I think I am going to send this off to be quilted. My mom told me she has a rule that she only quilts small things herself. Everything big she sends out. This sounds like a good plan to me.
Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4, Crete Quilt 5, Crete Quilt 6, Crete Quilt 7.
So what I actually did was measure all the squared blocks until I found the shortest and narrowest measurements, which were 16″ and 7.5″. The blocks in the original Ice Pops quilt from Denyse Schmidt’s book are 17.5″ by 9.5″. So I’ve lost overall 14″ of width and 6″ of length. I’m definitely going to have to add more pieces to the border, which I’d already cut larger to take this from the full quilt of the book up to a queen, if I keep going with this as a queen size quilt.
Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4, Crete Quilt 5, Crete Quilt 6.
I squared up all the blocks and laid them out in the pattern I like. That took forever, actually. I’m going to need to do a lot of calculating and sizing as I go, these blocks are seriously all different sizes. That should make for some entertainment when I try to get a neat look while sewing them together. I think I will have to take each row going down and make sure that is squared and centered. So each vertical row may end up a slightly different width. At least the blocks are supposed to look sort of off center and inexact. It’s coming along, though! I have border pieces already cut out, I may end up extending that border once I see the overall size of this.
Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4, Crete Quilt 5.
I’ve finally finished piecing the blocks for this quilt, but I’ve got concerns. First of all, the khaki fabric I used is much thinner than all the fabrics, so it’s more delicate. And for reasons I have yet to work out, I lost a lot of overall dimensions when I sewed the blocks together. They didn’t sew together flush, which I was expecting. Once I square all of these up so that they’re even, I’m estimating that this will be a good 7″ narrower than I originally thought. The length is pretty right on, but the width isn’t the same as the book suggests. This isn’t the end of the world, but I may have to figure out how to make up that shortage. I really don’t want to add another row of blocks because I’m sort of over log cabin piecing at the moment. Maybe another layer of border or something, we’ll see.
Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4.
Today I finally started this project up again. Ian, my stepfather-in-law, has an August birthday. I was furiously trying to finish this quilt in time for their visit this past week, but it took all the fun out of the process. And it was a tall order for my skills. This is my first quilt of this size, after all.
I have FINALLY finished piecing the first set of blocks. I still half to square them all up, but I’m saving that until I’ve pieced everything. Now I have to piece together the 2nd set of blocks in the other pattern. I’m halfway to laying out this quilt top.
