Sunday, January 3, 2016

Let's try one more time

Quilt 365.  Quiltyfolk have caught my attention. 1 a day. I tried this the last time we had a leap year...with building houses from scraps, got a little further than half way and burned out big time. The circles seams much simpler, perhaps I have the stamina for this. With the little houses, I was always trying to get a head, instead of just quilting one a day in twenty minutes I was tried for an hour....or to get five done. Slow and steady wins the race. Lesson learned.

So I am starting this circle adventure on Jan 3rd, here is a link to the project...Quiltyfolk Quilt 365.

My first block, far from perfect, what a good way to practice applique.


But I would dearly love to try and and make a hour glass quilt like this one featured on Barrister's Block.. So maybe I will try to do one-a-day of these hour glass blocks also.


This post of her's was so inspiring! I guess I lean towards more traditional antique quilts than I thought. So many lovelies!

I tried making some little hour glass blocks to see what I could get out of a two contrasting 6" pieces.
Turns out I could get 8 little ones easily.

8 comments:

  1. Applique does improve with practice, but I'm afraid mine will never be perfect anyway.:) Great to have another quilter join in on the fun too!

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  2. Applique does improve with practice, but I'm afraid mine will never be perfect anyway.:) Great to have another quilter join in on the fun too!

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  3. Your applique looks fine to me! Happy to see you are joining in. I'm using this project to hopefully improve my applique also.

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    1. Aww. Thanks for the encouragement! But check out my second circle posting and notice how truly ooglii my first applique attempt was compared to day two. I purposely choose a photo that wasn't totally in focus. Tee-hee.

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  4. Welcome to the circle gang! You will love it I'm sure!

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  5. I will stick to the cicles lol but good luck with the hour glasses! All looking great so far : )

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  6. Hi I saw that you know Japan Quilt Magazine. I have issue May 5 2005--it shows Redwork--I am trying to find information about the quilt on page 15 & the quilters name. Can you help. I tried to e-mail you but your emails not listed or working. Thank you, Jacqueline Powell USA my email--jacquie_p2003@yahoo.com

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