What I'm working on

I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last
week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder
has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size,
for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder
is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the
strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me
nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me,
and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was
growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a
girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This
quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:38:02 GMT, "frood"
wrote:

I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last
week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder
has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size,
for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder
is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the
strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me
nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me,
and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was
growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a
girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This
quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

That is a really cool looking quilt!!! I like the idea of a
"liberated" quilt...no one can see any mistakes cause there aren't
any! Might be a good kind to make after making a really tough quilt


Roberta (in VA)

frood wrote:

I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last
week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder
has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size,
for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder
is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the
strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me
nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me,
and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was
growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a
girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This
quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm


Striking!

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Thats rather fabulous. Whats giving you fits on it?
Di

frood wrote:
I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last
week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder
has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size,
for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder
is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the
strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me
nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me,
and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was
growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a
girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This
quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

That's very cool. I like it muchly.

Linda


"frood" wrote in message
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I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the
guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned
75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that
my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be
cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally
quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in
the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving
me nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to
me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I
was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she
was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee
nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons
I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

--
Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!)
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
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I like it -- many of my quilts seem to liberate themselves.

Linda
PATCHogue, NY
http://www.rrteach.bravepages.com

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:38:02 GMT, "frood"
wrote:

I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last
week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder
has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size,
for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder
is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the
strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me
nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me,
and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was
growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a
girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This
quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

that looks great!

I have made one using just 3 solids: blue, yellow and red with a white
background as a baby quilt. sadly that was before I took to taking photo's
of quilts so I can't share but apparently they used it for a while and have
since put it away for when the grand kids come along in about 20 odd years
if they are lucky... it was too "nice" to use up.


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Jessamy
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http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jess_ayad/my_photos
In The Netherlands
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I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last
week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder
has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size,
for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder
is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the
strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me
nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me,
and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was
growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a
girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This
quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

--
Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!)
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
un-STUFF email address to reply

frood wrote:
I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last
week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder
has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size,
for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder
is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the
strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me
nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me,
and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was
growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a
girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This
quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

--
Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!)
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
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Hey, That's a very cool quilt.I like the plaids and color combo. I may
try something like that.

Mary Ann

it took 4 blocks for me to figure out my strips were too wide. Then another
3 before a lightbulb went off and I realized I needed to alternate the
strips so they were wide/narrow/wide/narrow. Plus, the randomness of the
layout is bugging the Control Freak in me.

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Wendy
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"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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Thats rather fabulous. Whats giving you fits on it?
Di

frood wrote:
I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the
guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned
75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that
my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be
cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally
quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by
Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you
don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after
sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project
is driving me nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to
me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When
I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when
she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a
wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the
reasons I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

OOh thats lovely.So fresh.Your mum will love it!!
Estelle uk
"frood" wrote in message
om...
I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the
guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned
75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that
my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be
cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally
quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet.

The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary
Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use
precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in
the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving
me nuts!!!

Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to
me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I
was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she
was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee
nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons
I picked it!

http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm

--
Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!)
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
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