Monday, January 18, 2021

Brilliant Beauties of Joy

 Now, again, my design wall is empty.  There are NO quilts under construction in the Piecing stage.  I started a new project.  I took a long awaited quilt kit from the UFO box.  I have been wanting to do this quilt for years, but other projects seemed to take priority.  But as I started looking at the beautiful batik fabrics, and the 32-page instruction book, I remember why I have not started this particular quilt.  It is OVERWHELMINGLY COMPLICATED!  The instructions are confusing, translated from Dutch or Danish (?), the entire thing is paper-pieced, and there are curves and circles, and rainbow sequences...  A picture is worth a thousand words, so here is the rest of the discussion!


This quilt is designed by Jacqueline de Jonge, (https://www.becolourful.com/ ) the same designer who did Something Blue, which I made awhile back and now graces Dianne's home.   I figured if I could      do Something Blue and have it turn out beautifully (it even won a View's Choice Award at the Darlington Quilt Show), I could do THIS one too.  Yes, it will be challenging, and take a long time. Regardless, I put on my big girl panties and started with page 1 of the directions and now I have a Quilt-in-Progress.  I am hoping to finish part B today (the center spikey circle).  I will post an update if that happens.

UPDATE:

Yep, got it done!  




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