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October 6, 2013

Sewing Together 143 Little Squares Is Taking Me a Long Time

October 6, 2013

I recently took a new position with in my department. Which puts me in our Boulder location 3 days a week. The commute sucks, but that’s the only downside to the job. I have an office. With a door. All to myself. Oh, and walls. That are bare.

wall quilt

I’m stitching together these 2 1/2″ squares into a wall quilt for my Boulder office. The technique and pattern is the Supernova Quilt from the book Quilting Modern by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pedersen. {Side note, Jacquie is coming to Colorado and is teaching a class to our MQG and I’m registered to take it. I’m excited.) The pattern from the book makes a pretty big quilt, so I scaled the squares from 6 1/2″ to 2 1/2″ each. I completely shopped my stash for this one, using mostly a light gray for the background and a total of 3 prints.

wall quilt1

It looks pretty good so far. I’m joining the squares bit by bit. And after losing track of square orientation and having to unpick a few stitches, I started using a pin to mark North (or up) on the squares as I sew them together. Its a slow, methodical process. Pin a square, sew two squares, press the seam open, put back up on the design wall … repeat. I’m sure more experienced quilters can do this quicker and more efficiently while not making a mistake. I am not that quilter.

wall quilt2

 

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Posted by norine
Filed Under: sewing Tagged: improv, quilt, wip

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  1. Lynette says

    October 6, 2013 at 3:49 pm

    This is going to be gorgeous. 😀

    • norine says

      October 7, 2013 at 10:28 am

      Thanks! Its looking good so far!

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