Melly & Me's Scrappy Quilt Challenge
March 11, 2007 at 11:31 AM
by Ashleigh
I happened across this today and had to share!
Australian sisters Rosalie Quinlan and Melanie Hurlston of Melly & Me have invited us all to a Scrappy Quilt Challenge. Not only is there a flickr group, but also a wonderful step by step guide to foundation piecing a log cabin square.
What a great time saver - no more strip cutting, and perfect squares every time. I've written before about my love/hate relationship with log cabin squares. Maybe this method will make me love them more?
I'm hauling my scraps out and I'm going to give this a try. I love the look of log cabin squares, and even though I have two quilts in a state of ....err... unfinishedness ... I can't resist a challenge.
You can see one of the unfinished quilts above. It needs quilting and then it will become our picnic blanket for the summer. I hope to make a bag to match it from Denyse Schmidt's book. Note I said 'hope to make' not 'will make', 'promise to make' or any other sentence that may provide stress!
Can you resist a challenge? I certainly can't!
Comments
Lovely scrappy idea!
so glad you are joining us! It should be a lot of fun!
That's beautiful! Are you going to quilt it or tie it?
Ash: this is one of the unfinished ones! I'm further with it than the picture shows, about halfway through quilting it . I decided I didn't like the pattern I had done. Bit late now, not going to unpick half a mile of machine quilting! It really just needs a day's work and the binding and it will be done. I had best get a move on with it!
O you're brave and you must have a lot of patience to make such a quilt. I started one -a long time ago- but never had enough dicipline to finish it...it became 'rommeliger' with every square.
thanks for the link to the awesome tutorial...so tempting! But I cannot even *think* about learning another craft for a very long while...*sigh* But I wish you the best of luck!
Every time I see one of those log cabin quilts I fall in love with it. And then I think of all the measuring involved.... like Lien said I miss discipline and I am "rommelig" as well..
Maybe I should try again http://bakemyday.blogspot.com/2006/04/memories-and-cushions.html? Scraps enough around here.
I'm totally into scrap quilts. I'm just making one this week though not a cabin. I'm much more into the strips and strings etc. Hope you have fun emptying your scraps.
Ash - we are so excited you are going to join the fun!!! We cant wait to see what scrappy blocks you come up with! We are so excited!
You are going to use a handmade quilt for a picnic blanket?? That would last all of one picnic with my creatures - are yours neater or do you know some voodoo washing magic??
Ash: no voodoo magic, I just want it to be used! It's a scrappy one that I made from little bits and pieces and it didn't come out quite as I had envisaged it :)
March 11, 2007 7:49 PM