Aves 2018 - Week 22

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 22
I have spent a lot of time googling jelly roll and fat quarter quilt patterns and watching quilting videos on YouTube over the past few days.  I'd like to make a small quilt for someone in the near future, but nothing complicated - not like this.  I had a look at jelly rolls at the usual shop on the weekend, but there were no colours I liked. Jelly rolls online and elsewhere are just so expensive.  So I have decided to use fat quarters, and I think I have settled on the disappearing nine patch as a nice but not complicated pattern.  So watch this space...

I have time to think about such things as I have finished the big rounds.  And even better this week was a 6 1/2" block.  If previous patterns are followed, next week will be another 6 1/2".

This week required no templates, no foundations, no curves, and no hand piecing.  Simple huh?  Did not stop me from misreading one of the colours required and doing a bunch of blocks in the wrong pattern.  But it's okay.  They have gone in the future pile.  For a future project if I don't need them.  I've been watching lots of YouTube videos, remember?  I have so many ideas and not enough time or fabric.

So while this one block took longer than expected, I had it done by Sunday evening.  And I'm pretty happy with it.  The photo makes it look a little wonky, but it isn't that bad - there are just a lot of seams under there so it isn't sitting perfectly flat.

What am I going to do with myself for the rest of the week?  Better go shopping for some fat quarters...



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