25 Friday Sep 2015
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I’ve been finishing up the layout and piecing of the steam punk blocks. I finally decided to go with one of the layout sketches I showed you before, this one:
and here’s a sneak peek at it before I square it up.
You may be able to pick out the almost invisible cat helper. I’ll post more photos when I’ve pressed it and squared it up.
01 Tuesday Sep 2015
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Thank you for all your comments on the steam punk quilt. I think I’ve come up with a decision. I had made 29 blocks so I decided to make one more to round it up to 30. See below.
My plan is to intersperse these blocks with the improv blocks I showed on my Facebook page a while back. You can see them in photo below.
I’m not planning the same layout however, as they are only 6″ finished size whereas the steam punks are 9″ finished. So I plan to add borders made of the same mixed fabrics that I used as the backgrounds for the steam punk blocks. What do you think?
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
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I’ve finished the Steam Punk blocks but I still can’t decide what to do with them. I had a play on the floor but I’m not really enamoured of the results. Take a look. I even tried using them as a sort of border so I could create a medallion for the centre.
Here are some more designs I played with on paper – slightly easier due to not having to deal with a four-legged, shameless camera hog.
Any ideas?
22 Saturday Aug 2015
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I’m trying a new, to me, technique. I’m about to appliqué the centre circles onto the Steam Punk blocks. I made the mistake of using the template to cut out the circles. What I should have done is cut out larger circles, tack around them and then use my Perfect Circles to make the circle. Now, because I used the template, the circles aren’t big enough to do that with. I tried freezer paper and that didn’t work either, so I’m trying the freezer paper on top method. I’ll let you know how it goes.
