This quilt took me 4 and a half years to make. It's finished, and like most of my quilts I'm very happy with it. I love quilts and fabric. Sonya asked me what I would like for Christmas, I said give me fabric, and this is what she gave me that year. I left it for two years, waiting for the inspiration for the right pattern to use. Our guild had an expert teaching a class on "Attic Windows" with a new technique that avoided the use of the "Y" seam. The dreaded "Y" seam which is essential for this block. Sonya gave me the bold stripe and the fabric with water, sailboats and lighthouses. Good choice, everyone knows how much I love water, and lighthouses and boats. I bought the dark and light aqua to go with it.
The only problem with this technique is that it doesn't take into account "directional" fabric. I made all the blocks, then realized some of them, in order for the window frame to be right, had the boats and lighthouses sideways, or upside down. Ugh!!
I thought of just sewing it together and calling the quilt "Storms at Sea". Instead I put it away and thought about it.
I knew I would be dissatisfied with the sailboats upside down or sideways. So I just started picking the blocks apart. When they were apart, I had to cut off some water fabric. I ended up with lots of extra triangles which I sewed together into squares for the outside edge. Wasn't going to throw all that water away. I put the attic windows together the conventional way and, you know, the "Y" seam isn't very hard.
I had a lot of the stripe left, and a lot of the aqua left too. I've become a real fan of piecing the backing using left over fabric and blocks from the front. I didn't want the back of this quilt to be boring so I used what I had. I used the stripe for the binding. I have to say, this quilt is a knockout.
1 comment:
SO GREAT!
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