Sydney continues to sizzle with this past week and weekend's temperatures 30+ again - making sewing under a quilt top a challenge. On top of that work has been insanely busy, with my company's submission to the Federal government for a $10m grant finally being submitted on Friday- meaning late nights this week and working on my days off. As a result only small progress has been made on the birds and hexagons, slowly but surely the appliqué is being finished off and thoughts are now heading towards backing fabric and hand quilting designs.
Thoughts are circling too, around WWIT M2 (What Was I thinking Mark2) aka Jane Pizar's Wedding Quilt mentioned in a previous post, which will be my monthly workshop project at Material Obsession this year. Jane's circa 1860 quilt is a masterpiece of complex circular hand pieced blocks with a Mariners Compass-like centrepiece. I now have the centre pattern (drafted by Marg Samson in 1996), next workshop is in two weeks so pre-planning and fabric selection is under way.
Detail of centre from original quilt
(cropped from a purchased licensed hi-res copy of an image so I could study the blocks more closely)
The Pattern for centre block - yikes!(cropped from a purchased licensed hi-res copy of an image so I could study the blocks more closely)
Gorgeous French General perfect for an 1860 feel
I'll use a combination of English Paper Piecing and hand piecing techniques for this - I'm really looking forward to making a start.
Elsewhere in empty field's life, these gorgeous repro reds arrived in the mail this week from one of my fav. US quilt stores. Not new, but I wanted to snaffle up some more before they were gone for good. They've been earmarked for the BTCT (currently being ignored) and the Mary Manakee Album(on the drawing board).
Three from the Quaker Quilts range by Lancaster County Heritage Centre
Wishing you more productivity than I am managing!
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15 comments:
It is so hot up here as well and i tried to applique this afternoon and my fingers actually bent the needle so i will have to leave the applique till tonight bummer i only have 3 middles of flowers to do and i have finished my quilt top.
I was going to do the Jane Pizar quilt as a BOM in repo fabric but after looking at that middle i have decided against it. I really need to finish my Anne Daggs quilt i wanted it finished by the end of the year.
By the way on youtube there is a video clip of the Jane Pizar quilt a currator talks you through the quilt as she shows you it it is truely beautiful.
Adele xx
don't want to make you jealous, but in melbourne today we have a lovely fresh breeze blowing, we have had some more rain also, but it makes you feel so much more like doing something! your fabric choices are looking lovely so far, i have been ironing!
We are cold and clear here today, it's been a nice break from the rain! Glad to hear you have BTCT on the books as a future project. This one at hand looks amazing and I can't wait to watch yours unfold.
What a fabulous new project. I love your colour choices. I will watch with great interest to see its progress. Hope you get a cool breeze soon.
That wedding quilt is just amazing!! I'm really going to enjoy watching your progress on this!! It would be very nice if life & work could leave us alone for more time with the fun stuff :0)
Crispy
Very nice fabrics:) Isn't it amazing how diverse our planet is? I have just been to visit a Norwegian blog, where the temperature is -30!
It looks like you have been spending some time prepping. That's always fun too! Stay cool.
That is one gorgeous quilt! Love the reds you grabbed...try and stay cool...
Very nice fabric choices - I have purchased a fair amount of those reds and French General fabrics recently. Looking forward to your progress on these quilts - they look fabulous!
Ooh, Kate, your fabrics are lovely, and that quilt will be a knockout!!! Thanks to you, I ordered the Lovely Lane pattern. We'll soon be dealing with the heat, as well. Thank goodness for central air!! Michele
wow - can't wait to see you tackle that pattern. Love the fabrics.
Those reds are luscious too.
I'm going to LOVE seeing this develop Kate. Be sure and keep us posted.
Wow! That centre is gorgeous! And I was whining with my King George Rosettes!
The center of that antique quilt certainly is a complex design. I realize more so when I saw the drafted version.
Anyone have a link to that YouTube video with the original Jane Pizar quilt? I looked on YouTube & I googled, and can't find it. I did find pictures of the original Jane Pizar, as well as the reproduced pattern. I think the original is spectacular, not as impressed by the "Irish Circles" pattern. Although it may just be due to the colors, I'm a fanatic for antique prints & patterns.
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