The "Time in a Bottle" challenge was to make something with an hourglass block in it. This blog hop is hosted by Carol of Just Let me Quilt.
I'm never sure what I'm going to make for these hops. Sometimes I go down the Pinterest rabbit hole, or I play around in EQ8 until something strikes my fancy. This time I took the EQ route and deleted more ideas than I kept. But I finally settled on something I thought would fit the parameters of the hop.
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| one hourglass block... it's a start |
I am still trying to use some older less loved fabrics in my stash. All the fabrics for my project are from Moda.
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| one block coming together |
I think it may have been better if I had reversed the colours, however, I was limited by the amount of blue solid I had and I really wanted to use up that bubble fabric.
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| the quilt top would have benefited from a inner blue border |
I kept the quilting simple on this quilt. I did loops de loops in the background fabric. Some curves in the squares and triangles. Those triangles are busy enough without overdoing the quilting that wouldn't have shown up anyway.
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| a pieced backing to use up the leftover pieces |
I am happy to say all I have left of the bubble fabric are a couple 3-inch squares, I call that a win.
This quilt will be donated to Ronald Macdonald House in London as part of Hands2Help. You can read more about that over at The Academic Quilter's blog. The quilt finished at 40'' x 40''.
Now let's see what the other bloggers of the hop are making today.
