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| Finished my Four Sixteenpatch Blocks with Improv Sawtooth Borders small quilt, 15.5 x 15.5" |
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| Jesse Cutts' book Free Form Quilts and Patchwork, checked out from my local library! |
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| This is my Snowball Blocks with Improv Sawtooth Borders quilt that inspired my Sixteenpatch Blocks with Improv Sawtooth Borders quilt, a red and white series just for fun. |
Hello Quilt Friends!!
Sun and cool summer temperatures this morning, lovely!!
I finished my small quilt, Four Sixteenpatch Blocks with Improv Sawtooth Borders, 15.5 x 15.5", a few days ago. I wanted to use up some 1 1/2" strips of white and red I had on hand so the sixteenpatch blocks were made with 1 1/2" squares. I enjoyed the piecing challenge of sewing small squares, they remind me of small jewels. I then decided to seperate the blocks with off-white sashing strips and then a white border and then of course the improv sawtooth borders.
And the inspiration came from another small quilt I had just finished up, my Snowball Blocks with Improv Sawtooth Borders finished at, 19" x 24", also red and white. See here, Snowball Block quilt, for the inspiration behind my snowball block quilt.
My local library just made available to me Jesse Cutt's book Free Form Quilts and Patchwork and I quickly checked it out and brought it home! It's a great book, good photography and excellent inspiration for projects, color and design. This book is designed with beginners in mind and experienced quilters who enjoy the process and thinking behind project and color choices. Jesse is a good communicator.
That is the quilt news from the valley where projects are being worked on and good quilt books are being read and studied! How are your projects coming along?? Read any good books lately??
I'll be by to visit!