Aves 2018 - Week 7

This year I thought I would take on a quilting challenge, so I signed up for Aves, a Block of the Week quilt by Kathryn Kerr of Green Avenue Quilts.

Every Sunday starting 21 January 2018, I receive the instructions to complete one block for the quilt. The plan is to complete the current block before the next one is released..

Week 7

I was right, it was time for another big block.  It was one I was actually looking forward to, as it was an interesting design.  Being a long weekend, I had plenty of time to cut out the millions of blocks required, but unfortunately, being a long weekend I couldn't get started until after work on Tuesday, as I needed to print out the foundations that I was to sew the fabric onto.

Every night after work I would come home and sew a bit of fabric onto each one of the 40 paper foundations, press the seams, trim them to a quarter inch, then pin the next bit of fabric ready for the next evening's sewing.  As I am a bit of a chain stitcher, one evening I found myself with about three metres worth of triangles and wedges sewn together.  The chain took up the entire bed:


By Friday it was time to join the foundation pieced triangles together to make eight larger triangles.  When it was time to sew the top half of the big triangle to the bottom half, I decided I didn't like the resulting effect.  So after a bit of deliberating I decided to go off pattern, and swap the triangle tops around.  It's my quilt and I can do what I like. 😉

Saturday was dedicated to Netflix and quilting.  Triangles were turned into wedges, wedges into quarters, quarters into halves, and then finally halves into the complete circle block.  As usual, it is not perfect, but the effect of the block means you don't notice the handful of points that aren't quite right.  And I like the change I made to it.

Do I assume that tomorrow I will get the instructions to do the ring of triangles that go around?


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