That is the wedding ring block quilted…
…which leaves me with a 9″ border in a 100″ square quilt yet to be tackled. My calculator tells me that is 3276 square inches to be done. Am dreading it because it is on dark fabric and I shall not really be able to see what I am doing if I quilt with dark thread as I was planning to!
I used the walking foot to quilt those lines. I did venture on some feathers for the four ‘petals’ but with disastrous results.
Why, just why, can I not wrap my brain around feathers? Actually, I don’t think God intends me to quilt them, so I shall stay away from them henceforth.
The last block is the double wedding ring and then I start working on the dark blue ‘border’.
Quilting on yet another block completed today!
Here are some close ups of the quilting on Southward Bound, which was the seventh block of the Dreamcatcher Round the Year Quilt.
I used the walking foot to ‘stitch in the ditch’ all the needles and the inner circles.
I debated if I needed to quilt the middle ( blue) offset circle, but decided against that.
I am getting the hang of free motion quilting now! I am absolutely certain that you cannot get good results ( as a beginner, at least) if you do not use good quality thread and needles. For this block, I used a Schmetz needle and Sulky threads and the difference it made was amazing!
A picture of the back will give a better idea o the quilting on the wedges!
This was a block which was more difficult to draft than to put together! Would you like to make your own 18″ block? You could make a mini quilt with a single block or even frame it! The free pattern is available here.
You could do a really modern version to , like I have done, in ‘Rainbow’ colours. As soon as I finish this quilt, I will start putting together the Rainbow Dreamcatcher too!
Here is the full block!
I move next to the Winding Ways Block. Mulling over how I shall tackle that!
BUY THE PATTERN FOR THIS BLOCK HERE
I finished quilting the Chakra Block, Block Ten of the Dreamcatcher Round the Year quilt today!
I quite love the way it has turned out! A close-up of the quilting…
You can follow this link to find the pattern for this block inspired by the ‘Ashok Chakra’, or the Dharma Chakra ( Wheel of Righteousness), which finds the pride of place at the centre of the Indian national flag and is taken from the edicts of the great emperor Ashok, who ruled over almost the entire sub-continent, in the third century B.C.
Just three more blocks to do, then I move to the outer dark blue fabric panels! Do share your quilt blocks on my facebook page ‘Patchwork of My Life’. Have a great weekend!
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