Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Pink tic tac toe

I was trapped in my sewing room/office this morning while my husband was sanding the oak floors in the front hall. The sander made too much noise for me to concentrate on my writing work, so I sewed instead. I got out the pinks and the neutrals and started making liberated stars. I borrowed Gwen Marston's Liberated Quiltmaking from the library last week, and just as Tonya and all the others have promised, I was inspired. I'm hoping to buy the book sometime if it goes back into print.
I played around with the sizes of the nine patch blocks, and with a little adding here or there and a little subracting, I'm going to sew this together. I think its going to be a multiple medallion quilt -- the nine patch stars are making up a wonky bigger nine patch centre medallion. It will need borders, and I may leave it crib size or get it to throw size. I'd like to handquilt in the bigger neutral squares and put a border of smaller squares in the reverse colours around the border. So far, it's is just playing, which is all I have the energy for when my whole house is full of dust, and I really should be working.

8 comments:

Sara said...

Aren't Whacky Stars fun? I have some white stars on blue "starry" background fabrics, but haven't managed to come up with a completion yet.

Love seeing what other people come up with using Gwennie's ideas.

Joyce said...

Love the wonky stars! I have made some and they are so much fun.

Purple Pam said...

Those pink wonky stars are fun to look at. Am anxious to see what you do with them. I wonder what purple wonky starts would look like?

Tonya Ricucci said...

marvelous - very very fun. so glad you got a chance to read the book!

Sharon said...

Your wonky stars look so good! You managed to get yours wonkier than I've managed to, so far. Sounds like the quilt will be tres cool. Isn't Gwen's book inspiring??

Rosalyn Manesse said...

your stars are coming along great. I love the pinks and purples

Cher said...

yes, these are addicting-I used one for a swap I was in last year-I found Gwen's book on half.com...or amazon-and paid what I felt was a reasonable price for it a few years ago-you might try hunting it down that way. fun fun blocks!

Anonymous said...

I love these blocks. They are very cute.

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