Thanks to some wriggling from Christine (http://www.quiltmonstercloset.com/) I have a chance today to show you my Dresden's interpretation. Also thanks to Mdm Samm (http://www.sewwequilt.com//) for organizing this hop. There are more people on this hop, and check them out after you are done reading and looking thru my blog. Here is today's list:
January
31th, 2013
I did make something new for this hop, but I wanted to show you these pictures also. They are a couple of wallhangings that I did years ago, (still flimsies) that had Dresdens or grandmother's fans in them too. In a lot of the books that I looked thru, there was not always much of a difference between the two. Sometimes even the Dresden's were shown without the point that I put on my new one for this hop, and so I thought it would be interesting to show you these also.
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| My purple and green beginner's quilt. |
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| The Grandmother's fan. |
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| Woven interfacing in back to help with turning. |
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| This is a sampler in yellow and accents of blue. |
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| Close up of grandmother's fan. |
In regards to this new blog hop, I have to tell you this story: I had a couple of other things on the go, and thought I would have enough time to do this block (It's really easy, right?!) in just a couple of days. Monday rolled around, and I was just finally starting to gather my material. All of this came from my stash, and I haven't even made a dent in it yet.....
Tuesday was supposed to have a couple hours in there to sew. Guess what? With all the stormy, rainy, snowy weather we've been having, one tree couldn't survive it any longer, and it made sure that it took some hydro wires with it..... Not funny!!!!! I was without power for quite a few hours, and after it came back on, I had things to do outside the house. Thus I emailed Christine, and she kindly let me change my date to today.
So Wednesday I spend a lot of time sewing (finally...) Here are some pictures of what I had up till that morning:
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| Some of the blues I pulled out for this |
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| The cutting in progress |
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| I did not have a ruler, and used a paper template from a book |
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| The templates laid out on a strip of fabric. |
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| All the blues: some already cut, others still waiting |
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| My original idea........ |
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| The pencil sketch. |
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| The blocks with the fans abutting. |
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| Close up |
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| GAPS.......:( |
My layout will not really work. I will have big gaps inbetween blocks! When I am turning the blocks to make the snaky layout, it doesn't match up if I want to match the blues going in a line...... But I will figure something out in the near future when I will finish making this quilt. Here is another picture of something I thought would work:
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| Reversing them to make the slight curve. |
So here you have my story for this hop, and the pictures to show I've been busy. Sorry for some bad quality pictures in here, but I had to take them all in the evening. Hope you've enjoyed yourself, learned some, and loved reading my tale. Actually, there is more yet to the story: While happily sewing along, all of a sudden my embroidery machine jams up (Wheel just won't turn anymore), and if not for another machine right next to it, I would not even have been able to finish any of this on Wednesday either....... Something else that I will have to figure out once this hop is over....
But I'm happy to say that blogger let me upload pictures the normal way! Hooray for that!
Happy Hopping, and have fun reading more blogs!
Maria K
