Four Friends Quilt 3

Look What Marilyn Did




Marlyn is a member of the Fabric Stashers guild; this is her version of my Four Friends quilt.

For more Fabric Stashers and More Four Friends see my previous 2 posts.

Four Friends Quilts 2

Oops

I meant to include these two pictures in my last post but somehow I missed them.

This is Fiona with her version of the Four Friends quilt.

Another version, this time by Betty.












Linda and I had a great time teaching this class to all the Fabric Stashers.

Four Friends Quilt

Look What They Did

A little while ago Linda and I taught a Disappearing Block class at Fabric Stashers here in Calgary. We showed them how to make my Four Friends quilt which features four Friendship Stars cut into four and then reassembled.

Here are some of the results:

Ontario series #8

Ottawa

Paper piecing - either you hate it or you love it. I used to hate it now I don't mind it, ever since I became acquainted with the freezer paper method. It's easier, faster and less wasteful than the traditional method.

Outline Block #1

Ohio Star is a simple block. I got to wondering how I could dress it up.

Then I remembered my Shaganappi alphabet. It's an outline alphabet.

What if I made Ohio Star an outline block?

Even better, what if I outline all the pieces that make up the Ohio Star block?

Mix & Match #3

Start With Two Blocks 
Everybody Knows

 Ohio Star                    Shoo Fly

And Make Two Blocks 
Nobody Has Heard Of

 Ohio Fly                       Shoo Star

Mix & Match #2

What If I Mix Up Two Blocks?

Shoo Fly                         Friendship Star

What if I make a Shoo Fly block and a Friendship Star block, cut them both into four pieces and then mix the pieces up?

Mix & Match #1

What If Two Blocks Became
Two Different Blocks?

Jacob's Ladder           Ohio Star

What if you take two blocks. Cut them into 4 quarters each. Take 2 quarters from each block and sew them together to make a new block. What do you get?

We're about to find out as I'm going to do that very thing with a Jacob's Ladder block and an Ohio Star block.

A Do Over

Four Friends

Four Friends is a quilts I designed quite some time ago. It is made from four Friendship Stars that Are cut into quarters and then re-assembled.You can find the pattern for it in the Summer 2013 issue of Quilter's Connection magazine.

(I can't find my picture of it finished; so you'll have to take my word for it that I did a terrific job of quilting it)

It has been brought to my attention that blue and yellow are not everybody's favorite colors. Go figure. So I thought I would try different color combinations for Four Friends.

Pieced Alphabet

Part 6

Today I'm posting the last of the numbers for my Shaganappi Alphabet.

Pieced Alphabet

Part 5

Today I finish with the letters for my Shaganappi alphabet and start on numbers.

Pieced Lettering

Part 4

You may be wondering about the name of this alphabet. Why Shaganappi?

I've designed a lot of alphabets to be used in quilts. Naming them was always a problem until I hit upon the idea of naming them after neigbourhoods in the City of Calgary where I live.

The neighbourhood of Shaganappi gets its name from the Cree word referring to the bison hide lacings that held Red River ox carts together.

Pieced Alphabet

Part 3

There are two tricks I use over and over to make this alphabet.The first trick is to paper piece the tricky parts.The second trick is to create diagonals using the binding strip method; that is, place two pieces together at right angles and sew them on the diagonal.

Three of today's 6 letters use both of these tricks.

Pieced Lettering

Part 2

Yesterday I showed you the first 6 letters of this alphabet. Here are the next 6.

G looks simple enough but the piecing for it doesn't. But looks can be deceiving.

Pieced Alphabet

Part 1

I thought it was time I shared another pieced alphabet with you. Starting with the first 6 letters.

The grid indicates size.

If the squares are 1/2" x 1/2", then the A is 4 1/2" x 7 1/2".

You might chose a different grid size.

Nice Quilting

Look What Michelle Did

Michelle did a great job of quilting her version of my Patricia/Ribbons quilt. I am impressed.

To learn more about the ideas behind what she did and to see closeups of the quilting visit her blog.

A Do Over

Seebe

Seebe is one of my older quilt experiments. I want to tinker with the elements that make up Seebe and see if I can find something new. Something I didn't think of way back then.

A Do Over

Campsie

Campsie is one of my earlier quilts. Back then I thought a block was a block. That what you saw was what you got. A block could be colored different ways and the results would all be different but not really different. I thought every block had it's own unique identity.

This is the Campsie block as I designed it.

Ontario Series # 7

St Thomas

My Ontario Series of quilt designs use what I consider to be non-traditional blocks. St Thomas is no exception.

It's a simple block and easy to paper piece. It's also asymmetric which is why I think it makes a good block.





Here are some of the things I discovered I could do with it:

Ontario series #6

Bolton

My Ontario Series uses blocks that are made using paper piecing. This is because the blocks employ non-standard triangles.

However, that doesn't make them difficult to sew. Using the freezer paper piecing method they are actually very easy to sew.