Thursday, February 27, 2014

Never too early ....

.... to start planning for summer. The Mountain Jam Circle quilters met several weeks ago and purchased the fabrics for this year's Shindig on the Green quilt. We are following an Eleanor Burns pattern that requires some assembly before the cutting is completed, but Alice got the first part of the cutting done.  We met for a yummy lunch at her house last week so that I could get some of the remnants to make a block for the center.


This block includes all the fabrics that will appear in the quilt.  I used the basic idea of the block Eleanor Burns used, but made it slightly more complex to incorporate all the shades of blue in what I hope looks like a transparent overlay of a light blue frame on point set over a Missouri Star.  I have found two related blocks "Noon and Light" and a version of "Royal Star"  - but surprisingly, no traditional pattern that is exactly this combination of squares and triangles.

This is a 12 inch block. Alice and Ann will be piecing the rest of a lap sized-quilt around it.  Should be a beauty!

5 comments:

Alice said...

Beautiful! Only you could have figured this out!

Sherrye said...

It sure will be a beauty! And your transparent overlay is perfect....looks very real!!!

Anna Banana said...

When I looked at the photo and showed it to Russ, I used the word "transparent" to describe the illusion that the square was floating over the star. Then I read your text! Yes, you did a great job combining those fabrics. Who cares what the rest of the quilt looks like... It's got a great center! Thanks!

Dorry said...

Your experiment to give the effect of transparency worked out really well. Super accurate piecing is the icing on the cake for this block.

Joyce said...

At first glance, I thought it was a sheer fabric placed on top...I had to look very closely to see that it was not. Beautiful!