Some months ago - many months ago probably - one of our members suggested we use a discarded Block of the Month pack which another member no longer wanted to make. It was suggested we each take a block and turn it into a Premature Baby quilt for our local hospital.
Time went on and everyone was busy with more urgent projects but when eventually people started to look at the Block pattern they had we discovered all the blocks were a different size, significantly different. Mine was very narrow with the Angel flying sideways and I couldn’t think how to expand it to make a quilt 15” x 20”. Then (obviously I wasn’t thinking straight that day!) I thought if I made two more I could have three Angels flying one above the other, the original Angel in the centre, the other two made in matching fabrics and flying in the opposite direction to the Original Angel. So I painstakingly made two more blocks. THEN I started to arrange them together and realised I hadn’t worked out the Maths correctly and three Angels would make the quilt far too long, so, back to the drawing board.
Starting with the Original Angel I added rows of 2” squares and rows of appliqué hearts and created this little quilt.
Then I used the same method to make two more little quilts:
All hand appliqué with blanket stitch and hand quilted with a pale cream Perle thread.
As if by magic......... One Angel became Three.
Of course with the Covid19 lockdown these quilts will not be delivered anytime soon. Perhaps not even this year?