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03-12-2013, 10:09 AM
#102
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Pacific NW, Washington State
Posts: 237
Set 5 Spinning Wheel
I like swaps like this...I can challenge myself to practice/learn new techniques without committing myself to a whole quilt. This block is paper-pieced, a technique that I can enjoy but one that challenges me tremendously. (It has taken me ten days to get these four finished!)
I could not decide if I wanted to use four fabrics or to go all scrappy. So I did two of each!
I could not decide if I wanted to use four fabrics or to go all scrappy. So I did two of each!
03-12-2013, 10:33 AM
#103
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 1,914
Originally Posted by Julie in WA
I like swaps like this...I can challenge myself to practice/learn new techniques without committing myself to a whole quilt. This block is paper-pieced, a technique that I can enjoy but one that challenges me tremendously. (It has taken me ten days to get these four finished!)
I could not decide if I wanted to use four fabrics or to go all scrappy. So I did two of each!
I could not decide if I wanted to use four fabrics or to go all scrappy. So I did two of each!
03-12-2013, 11:49 AM
#105
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: NC
Posts: 3,755
More gorgeous blocks! I think I'm more excited about getting blocks back from this swap than any swap I've ever done before. I'm going to be making lapquilts with mine. One of them will be in my brother's memory. That one will be mine. The other will go to my friend's DH's retirement home for one of the other residents there.
03-12-2013, 01:23 PM
#109
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Joplin, MO
Posts: 88
Originally Posted by wraez
OMG the block photos all look so intricate ... I was thinking of doing a simple star, not sure now that I wanna join in the swap ...
03-12-2013, 03:21 PM
#110
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Pacific NW, Washington State
Posts: 237
Regarding the Spinning Wheel block.....
Whoops! A REALLY BIG WHOOPS!!
The pattern is actually called Twirling Star! It was designed by Nancy Mahoney and it was published in the first volume of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Magazine, Winter 2009.
Whoops! A REALLY BIG WHOOPS!!
The pattern is actually called Twirling Star! It was designed by Nancy Mahoney and it was published in the first volume of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Magazine, Winter 2009.
Last edited by Julie in WA; 03-12-2013 at 03:27 PM.
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