The 2020 quilt is finished!

Two years in the making, with 2055 different elements, here it is:

Some people have requested photos of individual blocks, which are below.

Crazy Quilting has taken over my life!

I've decided to join the 2020 crazy quilt challenge.  (More info here:  http://pintangle.com/2020-crazy-quilt-guidelines/ )  It involves making a crazy quilt with 2020 different elements.

To prep for it, I made an embroidery sampler with all the stitches I could find (minus a few I just can't get along with), and someone suggested I make photos of the sampler available to anyone who wants them.  So, here are photos of all the pages.

You should be able to click on a photo to get to the larger image, then right-click on it and save it to your computer.

I've also created a .pdf document but can't figure out a way to get that on the blog, so if you'd like that, let me know.

Gail's Quilt

My friend Gail has created some wonderful fabric from photos she took and manipulated and she asked me to make a wall hanging from the fabric. Hot diggity!

So that she (and anyone else who is interested) can see how it's progressing, I'm posting pictures here. Here's the fabric:



Here it is divided into two groups (the quilt will have two kinds of blocks, half from squares and half from triangles):

Now I'm ready to cut the fabric:


All cut to 7" squares:

And now, all cut up and ready to sew!

Blocks are sewn together, and rows are sewn. Compare the black in between the blocks to the white in between the rows. Which one do you like?

Here's the top sewn together:

Now the quilt is on the frame, ready to be quilted:

That's quite a contraption, isn't it?

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And now, drumroll please, the final product:

Can't really tell much difference from the top ready to be quilted in that small a photo, but the quilting is done and the binding is on. It's ready to go.

Goodbye, quilt!