Before I go,

Posted on September 22, 2010 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

 

I just finished this tonight.  The piecing of the jelly roll design didn’t take very long, but I seem to have been hand-quilting those spirals for weeks!

 detail of the spirals.

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10 Responses to Before I go,

  1. thehutts says:
    September 27, 2010 at 09:39

    This is lovely and Fraser loves it where it is. On his bed when he comes to stay!

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  2. Jingle says:
    September 24, 2010 at 21:28

    Thursday Poets Rally Week 29 (Sept 23-29)

    hello, friend:

    I invite you to Attend Thursday Poets Rally Week 29, linking in a poem by commenting,

    Happy Friday!

    I thought you are on vacation,
    u can still come, deadline is next Wednesday, thus you are in time.

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  4. vivinfrance says:
    September 24, 2010 at 19:43

    Thank you Barbara. The spirals are in the middle blocks (18 of them). The fill-in triangles round the edge were of necessity concentric circles. The picture is not very good! Yes, I do quite a lot of hand piecing. I am now at the final quilting stage of a long wall-hanging consisting of hand pieced illusion blocks in golds and browns. I don’t know what to do next, but no doubt the ideas will surface during the quilting process.

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  5. barbara says:
    September 24, 2010 at 18:26

    Beautiful colors. I seem to be into golds right now–that’s a pretty one in the border.
    I couldn’t see the spirals. The picture makes the quilting look like concentric arcs and semicircles. Do you hand piece, too?

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  6. vivinfrance says:
    September 24, 2010 at 16:07

    eek! Think of the cost of the glass. Though, come to think of it, I could codge something similar up from scraps.

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  7. derrick2 says:
    September 24, 2010 at 14:56

    Super colourful quilt, Viv. You could use that pattern for a stained glass window!

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  8. vivinfrance says:
    September 23, 2010 at 14:08

    ? Piecing: making the patchwork top. Quilting spirals: In order to link the colours more together, I quilted each block (little running stitches through 3 layers) in freehand spirals, very close together. I managed about 1 spiral an evening. Jelly roll: is a variety of fabrics, pre-cut into 2 1/2″ strips, rolled up (when they look absolutely gorgeous) and tied with a ribbon for sale, almost enough to make a single-bed quilt top. I had to add some extra fabrics – mainly to balance the light coloured ones.

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  9. Tilly Bud says:
    September 23, 2010 at 11:48

    I love this; it’s beautiful and I can see the work that has gone into it. But can you please translate your comments into English?

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