Sunday, January 5, 2014

Quilt or Painting

Winter storm Hercules swept through Thursday evening. Six inches of snow means I can stay home and sew!  Actually I stayed home and worked on Friday then rewarded myself with some Celtic Solstice blocks.  Now the enormity of sewing all those 3.5 inch squares together is making itself known.  However I have about a third of the blocks done and it's looking fantastic!
When I arranged my first blocks (not yet ironed), my dear daughter said "It's kinda busy." <sigh> Then today after ironing them nice and flat, she looked at it and said "It's pretty and it's mine". "No" my husband said, "It's mine!".  <happy sigh> I think they like it!  Actually, it is sort of like a painting. Up close all you can see is a jumble of colors. You take a step back and SNAP all of a sudden you see the beauty of the pattern and colors. Thank you, Bonnie Hunter!
Has anyone experienced this problem? Occasionally I flip a piece around while I am sewing up the block. Sometimes it is the blue star points and other times I turn around the four-patch. My seam ripper is getting quite the workout. Can anyone see the problem in the upper left block on the quilt above?  I just found it. 

Many of you who shop Connecting Threads will spot familiar patterns in the oranges, greens and blues. 

 Bonnie unveiled the final design on New Years Day, but I didn't look online until the evening. Instead I was busy working on Blueberry Hill (aka Jamestown Landing). I have finished 10 rows out of 21. This one will probably take me all year long to finish. Maybe I should name this quilt The Jamestown Marathon.

How far have you progressed on Celtic Solstice?  Did you proudly add the Celtic Solstice badge to your blog?

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  1. VireyaJanuary 5, 2014 at 8:24 PM

    Your mystery looks fantastic!

    I lay each block out and look at it closely before sewing it. I've caught myself with a few components around the wrong way, but I don't think any have got by me yet. Of course I could be wrong and will find something after the whole quilt is assembled and quilted (that has happened before).

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  2. Helen in the UKJanuary 6, 2014 at 3:17 AM

    Your mystery quilt does look fantastic! I often see a mistake in a photo of a quilt more clearly than in person :)

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  3. TLCJanuary 6, 2014 at 9:11 AM

    Everybody flips! ;O If they don't admit it they're not being truthful. LOL So who's going to win out on getting the finished quilt? Jamestown Marathon sounds appropriate. Stay warm!

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  4. EileenJanuary 6, 2014 at 10:17 AM

    I did a whole quilt with that block and had it quilted, bound and all the wall before I noticed the mistake. Now I take a picture before quilting a quilt and that helps me see any mistakes. Your blocks look gorgeous.

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  5. KateJanuary 6, 2014 at 1:23 PM

    Your CS is beautiful. You do really have to pay attention to the layout, it is easy to get yhings flipped around.

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  6. AndeeJanuary 6, 2014 at 2:41 PM

    I learned long ago to clip my sets of ten in the same direction! I always line my piles up and sew the same way, if one block is flipped it gets sewn in backwards...ack! Now that I take the time to line them up the first time I do better, but I did manage to put one of my borders on backwards despite paying serious attention to the directions as I went! :)

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