tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64074169794761951512024-03-05T15:28:19.937-08:00KES QuiltsI created this blog to keep in touch with my quilting friends and family.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-24498185281005939482015-07-27T06:50:00.000-07:002015-07-27T06:50:55.700-07:00Design Wall MondayIt's been a long time since I posted, not because I haven't been working on anything quilty but because I have been too busy and distracted. I do have exciting news: the quilt I submitted to the Sonoma County Fair was awarded a blue ribbon!<br />
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Sorry for the poor quality photo. They hang the quilts from the rafters making photos difficult. The same quilt was also awarded a blue ribbon at the Sonoma Marin Fair last month. I also received an offer to purchase it but I'm not sure I'm ready to part with it. On the other hand, I could always make another!</div>
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This is on my design wall today. The upper left is the center medallion of my Star of Istanbul project I have been working on for three years. It's all hand sewn using the English paper piecing method. I had made almost 100 rosettes and realized I needed work out the details of the center before continuing. The orange hexagons are one inch along the edge. <br />
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The lower right is a sample block from a pattern called Log Cabin Cutouts by Judy Niemeyer. It's designed to use the leftovers from another pattern called Cabin Fever. The outer circle is the leftover part. I'm thinking of saving this project for the Ranch Hand's Retreat in October.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-66622574277666446182015-01-05T12:25:00.000-08:002015-01-05T12:25:59.828-08:00Design Wall MondayI accomplished a lot of quilt related work the last 12 days I was on vacation. I quilted nine charity quilts, two of my own, put binding on six quilts and made one baby quilt top, pictured below.<br />
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This is a block called Star Cluster, from <a href="http://www.judymartin.com/free-bom-2.cfm" target="_blank">Judy Martin's website</a>. I super sized it so each star is 16 inches across. The whole top is about 38 inches square. I know two women about to become grandmothers and three women about to have babies so I ran out of small quilts to give away and had to whip this one up.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-16048961169018933662014-12-22T07:03:00.002-08:002014-12-22T07:03:38.873-08:00Design Wall MondayI meant to write this post Friday. Where did the last three days go? In my defense, I did get a lot done over the weekend. I prepped quilts for the actual quilting. This is one of them:<br />
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I whipped this up from the leftovers of the next quilt. I didn't want to make enough blocks to make the other quilt larger but I didn't want to throw them away either. A lot of work went into making those circles! I only had to make two more blocks and the setting triangles to finish. I made the back from leftovers too and now it's ready to quilt.<br />
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This is ready to quilt as soon as I purchase fabric for the back. I started working on this five years ago. It feels good to be finished! I was surprised to see my dog, Roxy, in the photo. She's afraid of the camera. I think it's the noise that bothers her. Now that she's an old lady and loosing her hearing she isn't so sensitive.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-23388049702522168882014-12-01T06:59:00.000-08:002014-12-01T06:59:40.808-08:00Design Wall MondayI accomplished quite a bit of quilting being on vacation the last 5 days. I finished all 12 of the drunkard's path blocks and discovered I don't have enough quite fabric to finish. I put it away until I have time to see if I can find more and I took out this old project. It's a drunkard's path variation called Millwheel. The first time I posted about it was September 2010.<br />
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Then I did some calculations and I don't have enough fabric left to finish this quilt the way I originally planned. I have two choices: Find more fabric or change my plan. I bought the fabric at Dharma Trading so I will see if I can find the same PFD fabric or an acceptable replacement. Back in the box this goes until I have time for that. In the meantime, I have another similar project that has been languishing in a box. This is a drunkard's path variation called Millwheel.</div>
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For more design walls, <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/11/24/design-wall-monday-november-24-2014/" target="_blank">visit Judy's blog.</a>KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-31704819577891090042014-11-21T13:42:00.000-08:002014-11-21T13:42:01.817-08:00Cross the Drunkard's Path Quilt AlongBack in 2009 I collected Drunkard's Path block variations and arranged them as a BOM for a group of quilting friends.<br />
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I even hand dyed half yards of kona cotton especially for this project.<br />
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Then I made two blocks and lost interest. My project has languished in a box for almost 5 years.<br />
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When I saw Vicki Welsh's post about her <a href="http://vickiwelsh.typepad.com/field_trips_in_fiber/cross-the-drunkards-path-quilt-along/" target="_blank">Cross the Drunkard's Path Quilt Along</a> it reminded me about this unfinished project. It took me a few weeks to get back in the mood to work on it. This week I planned my color placement and cut all the pieces.<br />
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Last night I sewed a few test units to remind myself how to sew curves.<br />
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I keep thinking I should be putting this together in a different way, making it more artsy or sophisticated, therefore more complicated. I am forcing myself to stick with my original plan. It doesn't have to be a masterpiece, just has to be finished.<br />
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I'll probably work the yardage into the border. I might use the quarter circles in another project........KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-85681616457976823962014-11-17T00:00:00.000-08:002014-11-17T08:08:06.446-08:00Design Wall MondayI worked on the giant dahlia this weekend and got the main piecing finished. Next I need to applique it to a background, put a small circle over the center and decide on borders.<br />
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For more design walls, visit <strong><span style="color: #6a9718;"><a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/11/17/design-wall-november-17-2014/" target="_blank">Judy's blog</a>. </span></strong></div>
KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-46020250320188806882014-11-10T06:53:00.000-08:002014-11-10T06:55:48.478-08:00Design Wall MondayAfter I finished my first One Block Wonder, I immediately began another and bought fabric for two more. I happened to have 10 yards of this fabric:<br />
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I found it in the sale bin at my LQS. My friend, the owner, said it wasn't selling. I was surprised since I think it's beautiful! I was going to put it on the back of another quilt but I think this is a much better use.<br />
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This is only the upper half as the long arm is in the way. I will have to slide it out of the way to work. It will take a few weeks of rearranging. I'm going for the look of a meadow and I love it so far! The small white triangle is a slip of paper to mark the center. I had to put up a temporary design wall since my usual one is too small.<br />
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This is my first OBW finished:<br />
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I didn't buy enough fabric for the borders so I used the sunflowers. It's another print from the same line. Here's a closeup of some of the blocks. I love the little bird heads.<br />
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For more design walls, visit <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/11/10/design-wall-november-10-2014/" target="_blank">Judy's blog</a>.<br />
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I am finished with the table runners and the wedding was last Saturday. Here's a pic of one of the tables at the reception.<br />
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<br />KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-42888016685339023182014-08-11T14:04:00.000-07:002014-08-11T14:04:39.091-07:00Design Wall MondayNot many changes, just more progress with the table runners. Two more ready for quilting.<br />
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I had to buy a new refrigerator and in order to get the old fridge out I had to remove the shelves in the hallway that hold my quilting thread. Since I had it spread out on the table, I took a photo. That is about 200 spools.<br />
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I'm still working on matching up the "sand" strips for the wedding table runners. I did get one completely finished. The final measurements are 13" x 40".<br />
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My friend, Chris, snapped this photo while she was helping me on Saturday.<br />
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The Sonoma Marin Fair was this past week and while I knew my entry won an award, I didn't see it until this afternoon. Danielle Couch pieced this and I quilted it. We entered it in the group category and won first place. We also won the Joyce Gross Award of Excellence, sponsored by the Petaluma Quilt Guild. Joyce was a well-known quilt historian and a member of our guild.<br />
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This is the final design:<br />
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I used two fewer colors and left off the two outside rows on each side. This makes them about 13" x 40". This size fits the table better and takes less time to make.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-4224413705579883582014-06-09T10:24:00.000-07:002014-06-09T10:24:19.901-07:00Design Wall MondayFinally something new! This is a prototype of the table runner I will be making for my daughter's wedding. The wedding theme is the beach so I was trying for a "surf and sand" feel. I think I nailed it! They are a little big. I have never done bargello-style before so I followed the instructions exactly. I think the final product will need to be narrower to fit the tables better. The second picture shows it on my work table which I think is about the same size as the reception hall tables. Now to make 20 more!<br />
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KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-71315310203363167112014-05-19T07:37:00.001-07:002014-05-19T07:37:38.894-07:00Design Wall MondayI can't believe it's been so long since I last posted. I really should write my posts Sunday evening. Once Monday comes and I have to go back to work, I forget. <br />
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This is still on the wall but I have made some decisions about it. I was unhappy about how bright the large outer petals are. It's even more annoying in person. A comment was made that it looked fine. My only "rule" in quilting is that if something bothers me, it must be corrected. I considered making this smaller and leaving off that row. A few weeks after the original post I had a dream that I finished this in it's original size, with different red fabric. That seemed like a sign I should finish. So I headed down to the LQS and purchased a different red but I haven't had time to work on this. I've been to the spring quilt retreat, had lots of customer quilts, started my daughter's wedding quilt and I am currently quilting my Easy Street for a show in early June. I probably won't get back to this until after the show.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-18020110208639566862014-03-31T06:26:00.001-07:002014-03-31T06:26:39.099-07:00Design Wall MondayThe giant dahlia is back on the design wall. I had to take it down to work on a project I can't show yet. Now that I have the next row of red added, the fabric looks too light. I don't like it enough that it needs to be changed. I have two choices, find a replacement fabric or leave off the row entirely and make a smaller quilt. I will have to think about it for a few days.<br />
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This is a variation of Double Wedding Ring called Pickledish. I hoped to get 120 of these done by the time I went to the quilt retreat at the end of the month but I forgot how much I hate paper piecing. It took me two hours and three pieces of paper to finish one! The next one only took one hour, but that's still too much time. A fellow quilter gave me some tips Friday night so hopefully this will go faster. I need to have them finished so I can put the top together at the retreat.</div>
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KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-2962798167736760162014-03-02T23:06:00.001-08:002014-03-02T23:09:35.291-08:00Design Wall MondayI started my quilt for the <a href="http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/p/redwhilte-quilt-challenge.html" target="_blank">red and white challenge </a>hosted by SewCalGal. . I've been wanting to make a giant dahlia for a long time. I was fortunate to find the Marti Michell templates on a cast off table as they are quite expensive. They are well made and the pieces are fitting together perfectly. I so rarely use red in my quilts I had to buy fabric for this project. I'm not sure why I feel compelled to make a red and white quilt. There are other projects I should be working on but this one was speaking to me.<br />
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See more design walls over at <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/" target="_blank">Judy's blog</a>.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-11234254619802912562014-02-04T08:40:00.000-08:002014-02-04T08:42:58.703-08:00Design Wall MondayI actually took this picture a few weeks ago, when I finished this for Judy's January Scrappy Challenge. I finished this quickly for two reasons: I really like this block and I was able to reuse some half square triangle units leftover from another project.<br />
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For those of you who find "scrappy" a challenge, try this: make each block with different fabrics, with the same fabrics for the individual units. I call it "controlled scrappy" and I got the idea from a Judy Martin book years ago.<br />
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I'll get this quilted as soon as I get my longarm fixed. One of the switches is broken and since I'm not sure which one, I'm going to have all 4 replaced. That should be done this week.<br />
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For more design walls, check out <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/02/03/design-wall-february-3-2014/" target="_blank">Judy's blog</a>.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-19562742297539846422014-01-06T14:56:00.004-08:002014-01-06T14:56:48.720-08:00Design Wall MondayI took vacation time over the holidays and worked on this project. I haven't worked on it for several months. In fact, it had been so long I didn't set my sewing machine up correctly and sewed a bunch of squares with the seam allowance too wide. So I had to rip and begin again. My advice to you all out in blogland is don't leave your project so long you forget what you are doing! So now I'm back on track and I am happy to report that the top part of this photo is the edge of the quilt!<br />
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The lower part is actually five sections pinned on top of each other. Next I will sew all the sections together and begin working towards the other edge, on the right. I will make this quilt as wide as I can with the remaining red fabric. I'll have to calculate how many red squares I'll need. Hopefully it will end up 97" x 97".<br />
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My quilt studio is actually the living room of my tiny, two bedroom cottage. When my daughter moved out last year, I moved my longarm from my friend's living room to my own. (I have some very generous friends!) I have a 24" Nolting on a 14' table. The table is long enough to store three rolls of batting underneath. The other side has storage for scraps of fabric and batting, large pieces of fabric for backing and quilting tools.<br />
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To the right is the doorway to the rest of the house and my sewing area. I use a sew-ez table with a small folding table at a right angle for my work area. I usually keep the ironing board to the left of the table. Before I bought the longarm I used to quilt with this setup, only I slipped another table behind the machine for a larger work area.<br />
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To the right of my sewing machine is the "wall-o-fabric". From left to right is my stash in the first section, which is about 32" wide and 7' tall. The next small section is UFO storage above and more fabric storage below. This fabric is mostly large pieces and stripes for binding. The next section is more UFOs above and finished quilts below.<br />
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To the right of that is quilting books and a mix of customer quilts, my own unfinished tops and unfinished donation tops. I hope to make a dent in this section over the holidays. To the right of this is the front door.<br />
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On the opposite side of the room is my work table (currently a storage table) and my cutting table. Underneath is storage and the dog bed, so my dogs can be in the room with me but not underfoot. That's Boo in the bed. Roxy is afraid of the camera so she went to sleep somewhere else.<br />
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This is my design wall, which I can roll around the room. It's two pieces of rigid foam insulation, covered with flannel, and sandwiched around an Ikea clothes rack, tied together with zip ties. I don't have a permanent place to store it so I just roll it out of my way. I like how I can roll it right next to my sewing machine for putting together a quilt top. I got the idea from someone's blog. It might have even been Vicki's but I can't find the original link.<br />
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So that's my studio. This is the first time I've had a dedicated sewing space. I wish it were a little bigger sometimes. On the other hand, I would just fill up the extra room with stuff! In case you're wondering, the second bedroom is now the living room.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-24144383201210241712013-12-23T08:02:00.000-08:002013-12-23T08:02:19.531-08:00Design Wall MondayThis is the first Monday of two weeks of vacation from work! I should clarify that I'm on vacation from my day job. I will be working on customer quilts during the next two weeks. Here's what's on the wall today, the last corner of my latest quilt.<br />
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This is a photo I took a couple of days ago. I should have this finished today. Then I have to decide about the borders. It's about 85" square right now and I need it to be closer to 100" but I don't want to just slap on giant borders. I also need to think of a name for it!</div>
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For more design walls, visit Judy's blog at <a href="http://patchworktimes.com/">Patchworktimes.com</a>.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-36195571546238580712013-12-02T08:57:00.002-08:002013-12-02T08:58:22.856-08:00Design Wall Monday<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I worked on this quilt more over the holiday. These pictures don't really do it justice. Then I started a tree skirt for my daughter.</div>
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See more design walls on <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2013/12/02/design-wall-december-2-2013/" target="_blank">Judy's blog</a>.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-73009077883409143992013-11-25T08:46:00.000-08:002013-11-25T08:46:39.213-08:00Design Wall MondayThis is the first new project in quite a while. I'm making this quilt for a friend who lost her home in a fire last year. The pattern is based on an antique quilt shown in the February 2013 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting. The original quilt was done in yellow and white. When I look at the photos, I see overlapping squares. I never do anything the easy way so I'll be making each square with different fabric.<br />
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Visit <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2013/11/25/design-wall-monday-november-25-2013/" target="_blank">Judy's blog</a> for more desigh walls.KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-45046077464329020402013-10-22T14:12:00.001-07:002013-10-24T10:58:06.144-07:00Design Wall MondayI haven't posted in a while. July through September is the busiest time of the year at my day job so I haven't been doing much quilting. I did finish this one though. It's a gift for my mother-in-law's sister, who celebrates her 90th birthday this month. I finished the blocks and put them together at the Ranch Hand's quilt retreat two weeks ago. The pattern is called Patches and Pinwheels and is from Bonnie Hunter's website, www.quiltville.com. <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/patches-pinwheels.html" target="_blank">Here a link to it.</a><br />
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And a closeup, to show the wonderful striped binding fabric I found for it.<br />
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I used wool batting and quilted it with Superior Omni thread in a pattern called Verdant. I have fallen in love with wool batting! I don't know how it's processed but it doesn't felt or beard. It's also light and fluffy, much lighter then cotton, which is great for large quilts.</div>
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I had a lot of big things happen in my life this summer, some great, some not so great. I cut my finger pretty bad with a rotary cutter, entered a quilt in my local fair and won Best of Show (large quilts), was in a car accident, my daughter got engaged, my dogs got skunked, and I went to Oregon to take a class with Bonnie Hunter! I will post more details later but I'll say now that my finger healed and I wasn't seriously injured in the accident.</div>
KEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152275061961193968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407416979476195151.post-36860967959699346942013-06-17T06:39:00.000-07:002013-06-17T06:39:31.850-07:00Design Wall MondayI haven't posted in a few weeks as there has been nothing new on the wall. I have been working on finishing quilts to show at the local fair which starts Wednesday. Last week I decided to take this week off and work on finishing some projects and cleaning up my quilt studio. It's so messy and distracting I can't concentrate on anything!<br />
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The first thing I worked on was finishing the Funky Wrench quilt. I first blogged about it <a href="http://kesquilts.blogspot.com/2013/01/design-wall-monday.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I counted up all my cut pieces and realised I could make one large quilt or three baby quilts. The fabric seems better suited for baby quilts so this is the third and last pictured.<br />
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I really like this pattern but I changed the construction to make the blocks by quarters so I would have more design options. Since these quilts are a combination of donated fabrics and my own, I will keep one and donate the other two.<br />
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For more design walls, see Judy's blog at <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2013/06/17/design-wall-monday-20/">patchworktimes.com</a>.<br />
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