Aves 2018 - Week 27
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 27
I was initially delighted to see the next block - a drunkard's path variation. I haven't done that block type in a while. However, when I looked closer, I realised it was four 3 1/2" blocks. Small but not impossible. But then I saw the construction method, and I decided to completely ignore it and make my own template. What the instructions wanted me to do was applique a circle onto a square, and then cut it into quarters to make the individual drunkard's path block. Nah.
Instead, I went and found a generic drunkard's path pattern, rescaled it so that the long piece had a 2" edge (I'd need four to make each 3 1/2" (unfinished) block), and cut out sixteen each of the big and little pieces. It probably sounds like more work, but there was no way I was going to hand applique, and I didn't see the point of going to all the trouble of machine applique a circle just to cut it up again. And this should look better.
So, I tested one out (above), and after putting the seam in three times, I was happy with the result. But it was super fiddly dealing with such small pieces. Still, I'd give it a go rather than go the circle applique route.
Overall, I'm happy enough with the result. The wonkiness of the blocks should disappear in the seam allowance, once joined to other blocks.
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 27
I was initially delighted to see the next block - a drunkard's path variation. I haven't done that block type in a while. However, when I looked closer, I realised it was four 3 1/2" blocks. Small but not impossible. But then I saw the construction method, and I decided to completely ignore it and make my own template. What the instructions wanted me to do was applique a circle onto a square, and then cut it into quarters to make the individual drunkard's path block. Nah.
Instead, I went and found a generic drunkard's path pattern, rescaled it so that the long piece had a 2" edge (I'd need four to make each 3 1/2" (unfinished) block), and cut out sixteen each of the big and little pieces. It probably sounds like more work, but there was no way I was going to hand applique, and I didn't see the point of going to all the trouble of machine applique a circle just to cut it up again. And this should look better.
So, I tested one out (above), and after putting the seam in three times, I was happy with the result. But it was super fiddly dealing with such small pieces. Still, I'd give it a go rather than go the circle applique route.
Overall, I'm happy enough with the result. The wonkiness of the blocks should disappear in the seam allowance, once joined to other blocks.
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