Subtitled Whatever Happened to Dave the Engineering
Quilt
Unbelievably I’ve had
this quilt top sitting around for 6 months already. You might remember back in March I posted some blocks I was making for this and chuckling away to myself about the working title of Dave the Engineering Quilt. No? I won’t go into it
here but refresh your memory by all means. I'll wait...
You're back! Anyway, I decided on
the change of name because hourglass blocks, space ship fabric, how could I not.
In my never ending series of lists I still refer to it fondly as Dave though.
The design for this
may seem eerily familiar if you have seen Cheryl at Meadow Mist Design’s Chronograph block and I freely admit that it
started from an idea simply to upsize that one block. Then I had to tweak it a
little to make it rectangular and so we get the finished quilt top we have
today.
Everything about this
design seemed all good on graph paper. Construction provided a challenge when I
realised I’d given myself a partial seam. I watched this video tutorial on sewing partial seams on YouTube by Donna Ward and it all turned out pretty well I think.
Still it wasn’t my
only problem. I’d originally planned on making it bigger but part way through I
ran out of background fabric. I should be able to get a bit more I thought so I
headed up to the local fabric store and came home with what I thought was the
same colour and sewed it in. It wasn’t until I took it outside in daylight to
take these photos that I discovered to my horror that they weren’t a match.
Looking at this photo that seems unlikely I know but it’s true! I think one’s
white and one’s snow and different brands as well.
Anyway that meant I
had to sacrifice some of my border fabric to finish the centre. I have since
bought some more (and checked for a match in daylight… several times!) and I’ll
be able to add extra length and width before I finish. And I’ve learned a lesson – I now label my whites so I can tell at
a glance if they will match in or not. It also explains, if you look carefully,
why the fabric print has changed in the block between the first progress photo
and the second.
Here’s the stats so
far: finished size is 56 inches by 69 and it took 1 metre of print fabric!
Pretty good huh?
‘til next time
Ooroo
Sue