Pie birds project continues

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My project that I described last week continues.  It involves many pieces sewn together in a 10 inch block.

It's a challenge, but I have blocks in the style of Jane Stickle, many small pieces paper pieced to make a 4.5 inch block.

And I finished a smaller version of the Nearly Insane quilt.  Many pieces in a 6 inch block, finished.

So 65 pieces in a 10 inch block should take time, but shouldn't be that bad.

Here are seven blocks on the table.  Colors are about right.

And nine blocks together on the floor.  My camera on my phone makes the colors more vibrant here.

One challenge is that in sewing the flipped corners to make the black geese, about one in ten pieces gets pulled down the hole in my plate on my sewing machine.  This is user error.

I have to rip out the snarled stitches and partially restitch.  This slows me down, and is why I have done only 5 blocks this past week.  I will go until I run out of fabric strips that I have pre-cut for this project.

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New block called Pie birds: a challenge

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I was looking at a pattern book by Kim Diehl that I got out of the library.  I tried a sample block of her Pie Birds block from her Simple Charm book.

It was not simple.

                             

Not for the beginner quilter.  No inset or Y seams, but many flipped corners, and 65 pieces by my count in the block. But what a great look!  Even though it took a long time to sew.  And I have done Dear Jane blocks, and Nearly Insane blocks, why am I complaining about 65 pieces of fabric in a 10 inch block?

I have already cut fabric for more blocks.  But I may make only 9 blocks - we'll see.  Think of the work involved in making log cabin blocks with tiny logs seen in some antique quilts.

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New start: it's a Kim Brackett pattern!

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I saw a quilt finish on the Colorful Fabricolic's page.  I emailed her about it and she was kind enough to send an image of her notes, and that her source was a quilt with this pattern on Pinterest.

Well at quilt guild the next week, we were sharing books of quilt patterns, and I saw this pattern in this book by Kin Brackett!

So no notes here on sizes, units, etc.  Get the book, and support our quilt designers/authors.

The pattern is called 3 patch, and is shown in the book here:

(Taken at guild meeting, and the shine is the reflection off the shiny paper).

Here is mine, in 1800's reproduction fabrics, not quite done:

But I want the quilt to be 60 by 80 inches, for charity giving.  This top needs to be a little bit longer (add more blocks) and a bit wider (add some strips) and bordered.

The border fabric I found in my stash was not quite 2 yards in length.  I had to add a few inches to it for the side borders, and given the print, if it didn't match it would be very obvious. I carefully pattern matched the two pieces of fabric.  A picture is below.  The point of the scissors is at the join.

Pretty good, if I do say so myself.

I will quilt this one myself.  Binding has been made and set aside.

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Tidepools project now quilted and bound

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I have a finish to report - Tidepools, based on a pattern by Scott Flangan.  He calls the pattern Plateau.

The start of the project is described HERE.

A finished top is described HERE.

The top looks like this:

I bound the quilt with binding that's the same fabric as the outer border, and top stitched it with olive green thread, which looks kind of gray:

Here is a corner:

As for my last post and last project, I am a bit disappointed in the long arm quilting.  The top tension is off, and the bottom thread is pulled up, especially where the quilting changes directions.  See the blue arrows in the picture below (I know, hard to make out - click on the picture to enlarge).

But it is done and it's on my bed.  I love the teal and green colors.

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