I've been working on a quilt made for a special person. Unfortunately, he passed away and the quilt has just sat there waiting to be finished for years. It's a quilt I started back in 2014. I have made all the blocks (nine-patch and snowball variations) using scraps of blue with the intention of adding applique in the center.
Several times I've pulled this quilt out to figure out where I am up to so I can continue..... but then, it has been put away again. It's stored in my 'Quilting in the Desert' tote which I have kept from when I was teaching in Arizona 20 odd years ago.
I'm pleased to say, finally I have made progress with it.
As mentioned above all the blocks are made. I've used 2.5" squares of various shades of blue fabric and because there were so many to me, I strip-cut them. This and making the snowball corners are just two of the techniques found in "Sewfasst" an eBook by Barbara Dieges.
Here is the central part of the quilt made of 9 nine-patch blocks, 16 snowball variation blocks (some are full snowball blocks, others only have 2 or 3 corners added), and half square triangles.
It really does need a good press, but that can wait until I'm ready to add to it as it will just be folded again and put back in the bag until I'm ready to put the corners (quarter square triangles) on.
Last week, I sewed all the blocks together into strips to make one corner of the quilt.
I managed to sew the strips for a second corner too....
And this week, I pinned the remaining blocks into strips for the other two corners so they are all ready to start sewing. I label these so I can keep track of them.
I'll add a plain border between the central section and outer corners, and the main central section will have applique added. I already know what, but have yet to design it.
Probably the easiest way to add the applique design is draw it on the computer with a transparent photo of the actual quilt underneath my drawing canvas. This process sounds complicated but it really isn't and it is the sort of thing I teach in Free Software for Quilters
Do you have unfinished projects? What's your oldest?
