RSC Child’s Medallion Quilt

 I am always trying to use up odd bits of fabric that have been in my stash for far too long. I had a piece of fabric about 10” square that reminds me of quaint churches and silos in the American countryside. No idea how I acquired it but it’s cute and when I found it again on one of my sorting out sessions I decided this was now the time for it to be used in a quilt.

I have been making Wonky Stars as RSC blocks so I picked out ones that would work with the centre piece and some of the many Pinwheels I made from waste triangles gifted to me over the last few years. 

I think I’ve only made one other Medallion quilt and I really enjoyed making this one. I finished hand sewing the binding a couple of days ago and I love it. It measures 40” square and combines machine quilting, hand quilting with Perle thread and I tied the centres of the Pinwheels with Perle thread.

Centre piece. Do you agree with my feeling of American countryside churches and silos?

Close up of some of the Wonky Stars.

More Wonky Stars. I so enjoyed picking these out of my Wonky Stars stash.

The tied Pinwheel round.

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Piecing with Pink flimsy

 I cut some of my pink scraps and chunks into 4.5” squares and alternated them with some of my more “girly” Crumb blocks, making columns which I sewed into pairs, alternating with 2” strips of a pink fabric which has a pattern of little white snails. It measures 40” square and will eventually be donated as a Linus Project quilt. I have enough of the snail fabric for the backing and binding.

I’ve also been making some pink RSC blocks, Bear Paws with a 4.5” “pad” and some with a 3.5” “pad”. 

The first one I made the HSTs incorrectly so, rather than waste them I made a Bear Paw block with a 4” pad. It can go with my orphan blocks!

I had enough strings to make 7 x 5.5” String blocks.

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Making Pink RSC Sawtooth Stars

 I sorted out my pink scraps , don’t have many so I added chunks and FQs:

I used the scraps to make as many 4.5” Crumb blocks as possible. They made 6.

Then I pieced the Sawtooth Stars cutting from the larger pieces of fabric. I used a green with white polka dot fabric for the star points in two of the blocks to get a bit more contrast.

I am rather disappointed with these blocks, not enough contrast in them for my liking. But those were the pinks I had available so I worked with them.

I have been following Pat Sloan’s YouTube videos for some weeks now and really enjoying them. Yesterday I watched the interview she had on a site called Textile Talks. I enjoyed that video and then found an older one where Kaffe Fassett and his niece Erin were interviewed.

 It was fantastic! I am a Kaffe fan and have been lucky enough to meet him on a few occasions and also visited several of his exhibitions so I knew he was a multi talented guy - painting, knitting, cross stitch, patchwork and fabric design but this video blew me away! 

Something he said resonated with me.

Last Sunday was Mothering Sunday here in the UK and our daughter Caroline arranged for a local florist to deliver a pretty jar of flowers, all different pinks and purple blooms.

Kaffe said an artist he knew always painted vases of flowers when the flowers were almost dead because their colour was intensified. This intrigued me so I took another photo yesterday, a week after I received them and they are definitely on their last legs, but I do think the colours are more intense.

Aren’t we lucky to be able to watch videos such as these? Do watch if you can.

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