Wednesday, April 24, 2013

"Quilting by Committee"

It's Quilt Week in Paducah!   The Winners have been announced and HERE is the Link

This beautiful Wednesday I am still playing with ideas for the final treatment of the Mariner's Compass Quilt.
Thanks for all the comments from Monday's Post.  I think this is called "Quilting by Committee".
The quilt talked to me as I laid it out on the floor. Placed fabrics beside the center and took the pictures. I had to turn it on-point, it's just another way of viewing it.  The process is a good one to put it out there and take time to ponder what works best for this quilt.  I had to share it with the future owner of this quilt too and got some insight to how I will get it quilted when it is finally ready for that.

The center was trimmed and the pinwheel borders are on.  Success is good when the borders that are planned - work! Now it is time for the MATH.  I'm hoping to get out to visit Lynn @ Thread and Bolts today.  Her MATH is better than MY Moses Lake MATH... As you can see I'm adding the solid triangles to make this bigger before the final borders.

The first try with my MATH doesn't look like it is quite right.  I hope to press out more of those wrinkles. 
 I should have paid more attention in those MATH classes.  
Someone should have told me then that Quilting included MATH. HaHaHa.

As for the Secret Project I mentioned it is for the Quilt Alliance. I have the design figured out and found part of a UFO to make it.  They extended the Deadline to June 1st. Check it out HERE.

Thanks always for the kind comments and suggestions- most days, I couldn't quilt without you...
Linking up to Judy's Wednesday UFO Report HERE

7 comments:

  1. Go Mary Go. Any progress is good progress, right?!? It's looking fabulous.

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  2. Love that "quilting by committee"! Such a pretty quilt for a committee to work on!

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  3. Fun stuff!! I adore math so it's probably one of the reasons I've enjoyed the calculating part of quilting!! :)

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  4. This is such a pretty quilt, Mary! Glad the committee can help! : )
    As far as math goes, I find a formula someone else has already figured out and use it to do the work. I never cut setting triangles without the "formula". I don't get it right if I do.

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  5. This is becoming a very pretty quilt. Such soft wonderful colours. Don't worry about the math, there are ways to cope without doing math! I'm sure you knew that!

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  6. **thanks for your comment on our blog, Aunt Mary. :) love,Anita

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  7. I love the way that the squares frame the center and then the pinwheels border it all. Very pretty colors and design!!!

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