Another top done!

I finished the Plusses quilt top this morning before setting off to Quilt group. I think it will look stunning when it's been long arm quilted.



















At quilt group Linda showed her Cowboy Boots quilt which her son took to the states and got quilted for £35, just a stars and loops panto, but great to get it done.

Then when I got home there was an email from Jenny with a picture of the block she has made for her Sampler quilt, following on from the Rattlesnake class I taught. She had to  reduce the size of the pattern to make the block fit her scheme. It looks really good on point, and I love it when students take the technique and go off and do their own thing!

Crosses together.

They look better now they are stitched together!
This measures 30" long and 28" wide - strange how often my work comes out square, or nearly square in this case.
I'd like the next one to be much freer with narrow strips crossing squares and cut much more randomly, but it will be a while before I can tackle anything like that.
The design wall is coming down now as the house needs to be tidied up for Christmas.
Family are coming and the "sewing" room where all my boxes are stored has to reconvene as a bedroom.. A chance to sort out some of my fabric over the next few days.

Crosses quilt

I spent the day cutting lots more pieces for the Serpentine Curves blocks, but with each fabric I cut a 2 1/2" strip to make some more crosses. Eventually the crosses took over!
I made it about square by adding in some part blocks and this is how it finished up:

As the pieces are just laid on the design wall they look a bit wonky, but that is because the seam allowances get in the way, and of course I can't properly reach the ones on the top! Now to get it sewn together...

Crosses and Serpentine Curves

I've sewn the 16 Rattlesnake blocks together so the design wall is now housing my Serpentine Curves blocks - I want to look at them for a bit, and make some more before I decide how I want to set them.
Also I've added to the crosses...

Rattlesnake

I think one more block will be enough for a class sample, but I may decide I like it enough to make it bigger...

I am thinking that I would like to use the other halves of the Jelly roll strips to make a crosses quilt. It is one of those designs that relies on a design wall to lay out the pieces and then you sew together in rows. I made a quilt like this once before in Oakshott cottons that was called the Donut Quilt. I think the pattern is called Kansas Dugout!