Friday 19 August 2011

Hunter's Cabin quilt

Remember this fabric I brought home from the Caring Hearts Community Quilting group to make a "man quilt"?

I laid it all out in this post.

Well now it looks like this:
There are still more strips to be cut.
All the patches are ready to go.
Some of the squares have been fussy cut. This is the first time I have done this and I'm pleased with how they've turned out (without wasting too much fabric).

This will be a scrappy quilt because I don't have enough of some of the strip fabrics so will have to add some extras.

And my design, inspired by Wanda's modular quilts, looks like this:


It represents the horizontal logs of a cabin. The squares represent doors and windows and are there to showcase the prints on the fabrics.
I will make this block by block, then piece them together to make the top and quilt it myself. No quilt-as-you-go technique here so it will be a test for the throat space of the new sewing machine! I even have a design in mind for the quilting.

Now I'm working on four quilts at once! Am I mad?

8 comments:

  1. Not mad, inspired! Can't wait to see it.

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  2. Yes you are!! Only kidding, not mad, just ambitious. Your plan for the quilt looks great!

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  3. No not mad, your just a quilter!

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  4. Love your new title :)
    The quilt will look great. I really like the patterns that have a larger square among the smaller pieces. Four quilts is quite ambitious but what the heck there are no rules :)

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  5. Wonderful layout-this is very exciting to see you plan, cut and sew-you are a quilter!!!!

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  6. Definitely not mad, it seems to be the norm for quilters to have several projects on the go. I wish I could be like that though. I'm a one project at a time kinda gal.

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  7. Knowing you as I do four projects is not a suprise.Glad to see you enjoying the process in your new space :-)

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  8. What a lovely collection of fabrics. Not mad at all!

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