Showing posts with label Sawtooth Stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sawtooth Stars. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

Design Wall Progress

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin


Progress has been made on the Zen blocks.  There are 49 of them now.

Zen Blocks


I finally got the Hint of Tint, Sawtooth Star top pressed.  I had finished piecing the top together several weeks ago.  I had put off pressing it because we were having so many 100 degree and over days that the thought of ironing just did not appeal.  It is done now.  Serged the edges today to keep all those seams from coming apart at the edges.

Hint of Tint Top

Can not show you a full view.  No place to hang it and show it all set up yet.  It is about an 80 inch square.

Center of Quilt

Here is a closer look at the center row.  The blue star is the center block of the quilt.

Favorite Block

I like this block.  It is one of the brighter ones.  Working in pastels is harder because even though the color palette may be varied the value palette is much more limited.  Each block only used two fabrics so I tried to make sure and vary the scale of prints within the blocks.  Some are intentionally lower in contrast than others.  I added light tone on tone white/cream backgrounds to three blocks to provide a bit more value contrast.

How do you like to work with pastels?  Do you find it easy or hard?

Monday, June 25, 2012

Seeing Stars

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Serbian Proverb

Hint of Tint

I have been out of town twice in the last ten days, back home to stay for a while.  Back to back trips are exhausting!  The second trip was a quiet one.  I took my machine and was able to get most of the blocks for a queen size quilt pieced.  I finished the last six blocks this evening. Now to play with the placement but first they need a trip to the ironing board.  Check out what else is on the design wall over at http://www.patchworktimes.com/  and what other quilters are up to at
http://plumandjune.blogspot.com and Fabric Tuesday at http://quiltstory.blogspot .
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