I can't believe it's already November. It was time again for Friday Night With Friends. This month, I got started on yet another quilt. This one is for my husband's mother's 92nd birthday. I kept changing the plan for this quilt; this was at least my third. Since I'd already cut out a whole lot of 2½" squares for an earlier design, I wanted to come up with a new design that would use many of them.
This is the design I finally came up with in Electric Quilt. This is the Providence block and Double Irish Chain block in an on-point alignment. And it uses a lot of the 2½" squares. Not all of them, but more than half.I had originally planned to cut Marianne's quilt all out of scraps, but then when I settled on this design, I decided to cut it out with my Cricut. It's just so much faster. I merged together some of the small pieces so I wouldn't have to make all those small hourglass blocks. I still cut out all the 2½" squares by hand.
By 2AM on Saturday morning, I had finished assembling all twelve of the Double Irish Chain blocks.And I've started assembling the setting triangles.I won't be surprised to have this quilt finished by the end of next week. And because I would like to get this quilt finished as quickly as possible so it can be mailed to my mother-in-law as a belated Birthday gift, I am going to make this my November One Monthly Goal.
beautiful quilt pattern - I didn't know cricut could cut fabric
ReplyDeleteIt's been amazing for cutting odd-shaped pieces. I've loved being able to use it.
DeleteYou did a great job with the design. You must sew quickly, you made a lot of progress Friday night!
ReplyDeleteI started after lunch so I probably spent more than 8 hours on all the pieces I showed. So, not that fast. LOL
DeleteGosh you did crack on! - great work and nice design. xx
ReplyDeleteThanks. I spent the rest of the weekend crashed in bed or couch dealing with a cold. I was bummed not to make more progress over the weekend.
DeleteWhat a lovely quilt design and color scheme! She will love it! Best wishes for a quick finish!
ReplyDeleteGreat progress and good luck with getting it finished.
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