Please post your Block 17 photos here.

I really broke out of the mold on this one - orange everywhere, even the Razzle Dazzle thread is orange! This one wasn't hard, except for changing the thread color so often - 6 different colors!

I love "out of the box"!! Beautiful work!

All of your blocks are gorgeous. Love looking at them.

Wow. That's beautiful.

the more i see the more i want to plow ahead.

i have a quilted laptop bag to finish for DD, then i am going to make some quilted potholders for my niece who is getting married on my anniversary. (along with my 2 DJ's and my grandmothers flower garden)

If anyone needs help with working scrolls, I took a few pics that might help. Just let me know and I will post those too.

Pretty

Oh gosh...both of you have done lovely blocks! I'm going to tackle this baby today...its a hard one to pick the fabs for. I'll drag the whole sack into the den and let DH help..he loves that part!

Thanks for all the details Lesley. I'm thinking that on the little teeny scrolls (my block is 7") that I'll have to clip a little bit. I think I can overlap several of the pieces though and get a nice point.

Here are some pics of a scroll I did - it wasn't for this block, but the principle is the same. Hope they help.

Oh those are gorgeous! Thank you for posting, it makes the rest of us think outside the box too.

Thanks Lesley....thats the direction I'm going...its the tight inner part that concerns me. I think that a couple of the skinny pointy points are covered with another piece on that end, so that helps. :wink:

ok Lesley are a lefty or a righty?

Righty.

that figures since i am a lefty.

Love your block and your avatar!

Ah, then you might have to put a mirror next to your 'puter, that might just help unless there is anyone else here doing needleturn and left handed who could help.

thank you. i AM going to make this quilt. (and finish all my other projects to boot)

Thanks for the pictures Lesley, they are very helpful. :D

I think I have the concept now thanks for the help This board is great thanks

This one I may try to tackle tonight I think I am going to need a bit of luck

Elle

Well I tried and it doesn't look that good I guess I need to practice more. I hope you have better luck than I am having

Huh I chickened out, I looked at it and looked at it and then thought nope, try another.

There is no shame in leaving this one until later and you have a bit more experience.

Once you have made more leaves and heart shapes, you will have built up some confidence and the scroll won't be so daunting.

I just didn´t fancy doing it just at that moment, if I put my mind to it I will do it. i never give up

Didn´t find it daunting found it fiddly

Here is mine. This took me about 12 hours...I'm slow. It is NOT my favorite, I don't think it is really pretty compared to the others, but guess what....its going IN the quilt!

I love it Patti, you know what happèned with Jane when you thought you didn´t like the block and it wasn´t going to work. Well you know it did and I think this one will fit in lovely.

Elle

I like it Patti - you made a great job of the scrolls - now the rest in the quilt won't be quite so bad.

Are you timing yourself for every block? I haven't.

well my block 17 is still a WIP and my scrolls are just not what I think they should be. I have beeen working on this block 3 days and I only have one scroll put on I had to go to the next block before I had a melt down. Well back to the blocks. Maybe I will show block17 when I finally finish it , or maybe not. have fun

Oh dear Lynnie, that sounds so sad, I am really sorry you are having such a problem.

I looked for a Youtube video that might help - I couldn't find one the way I do it, but this might be an alternative way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Y04...eature=related
It would be the second half of this that you need to watch, and using her method would need quite a few tiny snips in the seam allowance to get nice curves, but it could work quite well.

:thumbup: I love red. Sometimes what we don't feel all that enthused about by itself, really plays well in groups :XD:
It has serious potential and gets applause from the paws ;)
I have my book and a lot of the fabrics...just got to get a lot more other things lined up, so I won't be working along with y'all, but visiting often to slurp up the goodness. Keep it coming, I could look at these for days, weeks, months...and probably will be looking at mine...let's hope not years! :? :lol:

Well, thank you all...Lesley, I am kinda keeping track of the hours. I didn't do that on Jane and wished that I had. I'm not doing it to the minute...but fairly close. Its just one of those interesting little things to keep up with :wink:

Patti, your scrolls look fab!!! I'm a big chicken to try needle turn. I, like you, learned back in the 80s to use freezer paper, & that was how I did JJ. Looking at LBB, I think I may try NT on some leaves, if nothing else. I do need to be more open minded - if I can just get Lesley out of my head! She's in there reading my mind. :)

LOL, sorry, I had no idea!

:thumbup:

Greenini looked at my scrolls yesterday and said I may be a little to critical she said that my first one didn't look to bad we thought maybe I need to make a Y snip into the curve of the scroll. I will post pic when I am finished.

Impressive!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

here is my WIP block #17 I am having to redo this block Scrolls are just not working out for me . I need to move on and come back to this one . Maybe when I get home I will do it on my machine????? :( :( :( :cry:

Here is my attempt at this block

Well done Patty, that's one of the harder ones, so you have that cracked, you can reward yourself with an easier one!

I am tackling that one now, so will see how I go, its a bit tricky, don´t know if it has such sharp curves as the one I have just finished, sorry can´t remember the number