I’m showing you both of these photos, so you can see the types of spacers between the house and the tree. I did talk to the designer at a quilt show sharing with him some of the problems I had with it. Truth: My pattern is either lent out to someone, or in a proverbial “safe place.” Either way I can’t put my hands on it, in order to be more specific about this.Īnother Truth: This pattern needed several more rounds of pattern testing. I eliminated those end spacers on the top and middle triangle sections as I thought it was a lot of bother. Basically you make a sort of flying geese block, stretched or regular (depending on where in the tree stack it is), then added a spacer at the end to even it out. The original pattern has a lot of funny pieces at the ends of the trees. Then it was time to start on the trees and houses. The feet were a torture to applique, but they make this guy, so stick with it.Īs mentioned before, the blocks were made by my mates in the Mid-Century Modern Bee here I audition them for their placement around Santa. The center Santa block needs to finish at 24″ so if you are going to add a one-inch border, then the center Santa needs to finish at 22 inches (cut the center white square down to 22 1/2″ inches to allow for seam allowances). I also added a 1-inch red band around the outside edge. I measured carefully, placing everything just so, but in the end, I slimmed down the top of the tree (inset) so everything would fit. I decided I wanted a cleaner finish as I wasn’t keen about the “chop-offs” on the original pattern. On the original pattern, you can see the top of the tree and the tips of Santa’s toes being chopped off by the addition of their giant rick-rack. You can download templates (or pattern pieces) for each block on that page. So I drafted my own in QuiltPro Software, and asked my Mid-Century Modern Beemates to each make me a block, shown in this post, where there are 14 blocks to choose from. Outside Large Green Blocks: I didn’t like many of the pattern’s original blocks. See Construction Photos section for more info. Pattern: I used Santa’s Village, from Thimblecreek, but with many changes. I can see several that are strung out across several months, that would benefit from this coalescing. While it may seem strange to have a post about Christmas in June, I will occasionally be going through some long-term projects, and collecting all the information about that quilt in one post, linking to other posts when necessary. I do have an index, but she specifically asked for more information about that quilt, which is NOT on the indexed link. Her simple request pointed up a problem all of us blog writers face: how to find things on our blogs. I recently received an email from a reader, asking me about the details of my Jolly Old St. And if you are having a solo holiday experience this year, I wish you lots of good music, great take-out, and quality sewing time. I have one more Christmasy post on Christmas Day, so until then, keep your spirits Merry and Bright while finishing up the shopping, baking and gathering. I’ll have more news about all of this when it gets closer to Road, which will be held January 20-26, 2020. This year I’ll have a quilt in that gallery as well, as our Inland Empire Modern Quilt Guild has been selected to provide those quilts. It will be a gathering, of sorts, for a few members of the Gridster Bee! We generally meet upstairs for lunch, overlooking the gallery of hanging quilts. We have quite a group that will meet up there, with Lisa bringing friends from Utah, Carol coming all the way from Boston, Kelley from Palm Springs, and the locals ( Simone, Leisa, Laurel and I). I was supposed to do Block 4, but things just kind of morphed into something else once I got going.įinally, in other happy news, this is a photo of me dropping off three quilts that were accepted to the upcoming Road to California Quilt Show. They are for Afton, who lives in an area known for their hot air balloon festivals, so it’s a fitting block for her (although she may just really like them, I haven’t asked). We finished up our 2019 Gridster Bee by making these hot air balloon blocks, free from Woodbury Way. I hope to get photos of what the other families are doing with their table toppers/bed accents/wall hangings/whatever. We were at my daughter’s for Thanksgiving, and I snapped this quilt, casually tossed on her bed. I unpicked the upside-down animals, righting them (as seen in the left photo). I started these in April (in process photos, above) and finished, quilted, and bound them in November and mailed them before Thanksgiving so the families could use them in their decorating (if they wished).
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