ROUNDABOUT

I have always enjoyed combining two different blocks in a quilt to produce secondary patterns.  This is an idea I have used repeatedly over the years.  Especially, it is fun to combine 45 degree triangles with 60 degree triangles to give the illusion of curves.

These are the two blocks I alternated in this design.

 The centers for block #1 were fussy-cut to make center medallions.

Part of the design was carried into the border to partially complete the illusion of a curve.

"THE STATS"
Roundabout, 2019, 27"x27", Paper pieced, Machine pieced, Machine Quilted

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FALLOW GROUND

Awhile back I posted about reinventing a quilt that I made in 1986 called "Orchestral Maneuvers at Dawn" (named after a favorite band of my son's at the time).

It was a simple alternating two-block design.

I knew that by using newer fabrics and a different layout of the two blocks, an entirely different quilt would emerge.

Here are the two blocks in the new fabrics.

And here is the finished quilt which I have named "Fallow Ground".

Hosea 10:12 and Jeremiah 4:3 in the bible talks about fallow ground.

"THE STATS"

'Fallow Ground', 2019, 23"x23", Paper Pieced, Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted

Every thing old can be new again!

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