Can you believe it is mid-April?? How are you all doing with your isolation / social-distancing/ physical distancing??
Working from home has been interesting, as my work hours seem to have increased and now can be any from 8am-11pm. Add making sure school schedules are being met, getting 3 meals a day on the table, and baking once a week…all seems overwhelming at times but we are making it through each day.
I have decided to start attaching up on my blog posts of some of my finishes and projects I am working on. I have been awful here on my blog, however those that follow me on instagram (@ml_wilkie) will have seen these. So let’s get started, first up is Squircle.
Within the first year of quilting I joined the New Bloggers Blog hop. It was so good to meet people with a common interest and starting out on their quilting journeys, and many of them are still friends today. After the Blog hop 12 of us did a block party/swap (Scrap-bee-licious), where each of us gave instructions on our particular month and people made the block and sent them back to the person of the month. I sent every one a couple of Angela Pingel’s book “A Quilters Mixology: Shaking up curved piecing“. I asked for 2 six inch drunkard path blocks in particular color ways (blue or teal or aqua print for the pie and the crust in a neutral back ground (cream, white or grey). It was the first time for many of us sewed curves.
At the end of the round these were the blocks I received. I was then stuck what to do with them. Do I make a baby quilt, as I don’t have enough blocks for a lap sized quilt? Could I add more drunkard path block? I decided to put them away for a while.
That landed up being almost 5 years later. Finally, I was inspired after seeing an Art Deco poster, that I could use these blocks for a lap sized quilt and transition from a circle to a square.
I am really happy how the quilt top turned out, and decided that I would get it quilted by Cary Quilting Company with an all over design.
To get a picture of the finished quilt, I called up a couple of friends and we took the quilt out for a photo shoot at the NC Museum of Arts. It was a perfect outing with coffee and lunch, then the perfect light for a picture in front of this amazing mural.
The quilt now lives with my friend in Houston, TX and her beautiful girl. I might make a couple more of these as they make great gifts/charity quilts and it was a quick make.
Details
Name : Squircle
Design: Original Design (with use of Angela Pingel’s templates)
Fabric: Variety of Prints and Neutral solids
Dimensions: 56 x 70 in.
Quilted: Cary Quilting Company using a circular design
1. EPP Hexagons. Oldest WIP. Currently at 40″ and needs to be at least 60″ and squared. [2013]
3. Second quilt for Pushme, Pullme quilt. Mini Quilt, 1 of 4 blocks are done. [2013]
4. Stitch and Flip quilt from a class with @mamlovequilts (Nicole Neblett). Used Madrona Road fabrics. Mini Quilt. [2013]
5. Lotta Aerial, a quilt using Lotta Jansdotter prints and Carolyn Friedlander’s Aerial pattern. This was a Sew Down Nashville class I took. [2014]
6. A second Tapa Star block but different color ways. 2 blocks out of 4 complete. [2014]
7. Trees, PP pattern by Carolyn Friedlander. I need to complete one block and the sashing. [2014]
10. Rangers Station – the Top is complete and fabric selected for the back. [2014]
11. Modern improv stripe quilt. Enough fabric triangles for 3 blocks but want to add a lot more solid black and white blocks and mix these pieces in. [2014]
12. Lines Drawn, Fun pieces with Karen Lewis fabrics and Yoshiko Jinzenji Print. Wall hanging. [2015]
13. Road Sign Traveling Quilt. Have most of the blocks back from folks who added to it, but need to make more so this will be a complete quilt. [2015]
14. Blue Triangles. Mini Quilt with Alison Glass Blue Batiks. [2015]
16. Home, a mini quilt using recycled fabrics. [2015]
19. Frances Firefly mini quilt (3 blocks). Made from a Elizabeth Hartman class at my first Sewtopia. [2016]
21. Orange Creamsicle, hand pieced improv circles. Matchstick quilting and hand quilting to finish the quilt. [2016]
