Thursday, August 21, 2025

Distance to the ground

I called this quilt " Distance to the ground" because it made me think of sky? Air possibly? I made it because another woman at quilters was doing a blue and white quilt, and it is such a lovely classic colour scheme, that I thought I needed one. Another one, I have made blue and white quilts before.


But not this pattern which is a traditional block that's called about fifteen different things. All of my points are chopped off and I had to trim the blocks about half an inch so they would be even remotely square, so it does not look at all the way it should look. Am I bothered? I am not. 


It is quilted in an allover meander. This possibly the laziest quilting pattern you can do other than straight lines (which I am also very fond of) but it looks fine and you wouldn't notice much on this busy piecing. The outer border was meant to have those four-patches floating in the same fabric but I got the maths wrong and didn't have quite enough ... so a recalculation and some unpicking meant two colours. As ever, it looks like that's what I planned all along! Hah!

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