Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2014

Jacobean Journey Quilt - Block A4H7

This block is part of the applique border. It has two applique flower designs and a lot of stitches. You need fabrics 1, 3, 4, backing fabric, stabilizer, water soluble thread, and all coordinating thread.  If you don't want to use stabilizer for fabric 3 that's your choice. I've been doing it just so that I don't get any puckering since it is heavily stitched.  I figure better safe than sorry. I've gotten 1/2 of the outer border blocks done and haven't worked on the inner border blocks at all. So I've still got a lot of blocks to go. At our last meeting, we decided on a trunk show late January as a show and tell. Assuming I get this thing done by then, I'll drag it in.  I still can't really picture what its going to look like even though I'm doing all the blocks so I'm excited to see how it looks when all the blocks are together.  I know it'll be really pretty and it'll be fun to see everyone else's quilt too. Until then, I&

Jacobean Journey Quilt - Block A3H8

We finally started the applique border blocks of the Jacobean Journey quilt this month and the instructions that I was given was a little... well, confusing.  According, to Hoopsisters the instructions for several blocks are the same so they don't want to print different blocks with the same type of instructions.  So their solution was to draft the instructions using a sample of the blocks with pictures for that one block. However, additional blocks do not get their own set of pictures but share the same instructions.  For example, if a block has only 2 fabrics (say 1 and 4) you follow instructions A, which will have pictorial examples of only 1 type of block, which may or may not match the block you are currently stitching out.  So this was fairly confusing for me since my Babylock doesn't show file names just pictures and my pictures didn't match the set of instructions (or so I thought) I received since the pictures didn't match at all. So my suggestion would be