Several weeks ago, I posted about the trouble I had working from a flawed pattern I found in a book. The pattern was supposed to be based on tile work found in the Moorish Palace, the Alhambra, in Granada, Spain. Here's the finished quilt:
The second picture is one I made to use up scraps. I scarcely made a dent in them:
In this case, I invented the block (a 9-patch square in a square), then learned that it's called Road to Jericho.
--Lia
Julia: Cool! The first appears very artistic and planned, while the second has a more traditional and free-spirited look. They are equally lovely!
How did you achieve that wobbly look on the first one? Is that chenille stripping? I Like it. Polly
I'm not sure what you mean by the wobbly look. It could be the way the photograph was taken outdoors on a breezy day. There's no chenille, just ordinary quilting cottons throughout. The stripes that form the interlocking strips that surround the hexagons are 3 pieces of fabric sewn together in strips. Everything was heavily machine quilted which accounts for the texture. I can send you a close-up directly if you'd like.
--Lia
Both quilts are beauties! (Seven Moorish Sisters?) I really like the way you staggered the 9-patch blocks -or is that the normal thing for Road to Jericho? Looks like great quilting too! Roberta in D
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Wow! That first quilt is amazing!! Congratulations!
WOW, that first quilt is amazing. And like the scrappy one, too!
Nah, I knew nothing about Road to Jericho until after the quilt top was done and the machine quilting was complete. I just set out to use scraps, realized that many of the blocks were coming out a little under the size they should have (7.25" instead of 7.5) and thought of the easiest way to put them together without having to deal with matching points or the bulky seams where the points did match. By using off-set rectangles, it was an easy matter of making sure every strip was the same size, then sewing the strips together.
When I was done, a friend, a beginner really, said she was collecting scraps without meaning to and asked for a good pattern to use up scraps. I showed her the quilt; she found the pattern in a book.
--Lia
The stars are wonderful. Good job. Like the scrappy quilt too.
Wow! Lia, that tile pattern turned out great! Well, the Road to Jericho did, too, but the other one is a knockout! :)
Absolutely georgeous. i love the colors. Both are really awesome. Great Job!!
amy in CNY
Wow--the pattern may have been flawed, but your quilt is gorgeous. I like the colors a lot!
Monique in TX
Wow, those are outstanding. I, too, thought that there was chenille in the quilt. The first is by far stunning, but I'm also in love with stars! Launie, in Oregon
Howdy!
Tile quilt: super!
R/Sandy
Lia, I've been trying to post all morning, hope this one goes through. What gorgeous quilts! I'm just blown away by the first one. And the second ..... well, you obviously have a better quality of scraps than I do, LOL. Just amazing. You have great talent and I am both awed and a little jealous. Please keep showing us your beautiful work.
Sunny
Y'all have to tell me what's making you think chenille. I don't see it. There's another funny having to do with perception. I know perfectly well that there are 6-pointed stars, but after making the quilt and paying more attention to the placement of the stripes, I see the hexagons sticking out at me. The stars are a secondary thing, an accident in the main event. To my eye, they fade while the hexagons pop. The next cool thing, now that I've figured out how to make the pattern, is to figure out how to put a kaleidoscope in the stars. Since it's constructed in triangular blocks such that the star design doesn't show up until long strips of triangles are sewn together, that would be nearly impossible. Of course, the quilt I'm looking at on my screen looks impossible too. I'm tellin' you. That was one hard quilt to wrestle with.
--Lia
Very good job. I love the Moorish Palace one. It is really beautiful. Scraps are really hard to use up. I have a bin of scraps I am trying to use up and it just doesn't seem to go down.
Wow, Lia, those are awsome. I love the colors in both.
-Irene
Well, now you know why they gave up when the nice doctor was showing me the ink blots and asking me what did I see. I'm just real proud to tell you they finally let me have crayons with minimum supervision. Lia, maybe it's just my monitor or the way the lights and shadows hit the white moving in and out. I truly did think you'd invented a way to weave chenille through that beauty. Congratulations on a wonderful creation, and thank you for sharing. Wow. Polly
Looks like you worked through the problem just fine, Lia! What a fantastic quilt!
I love scrappy quilts. They are so fun and snuggly.
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