365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Monday, August 31, 2020
Back To The Corner
Day 323: I was marginally beyond the halfway point in the hand-stitching of this piece when Mousie's grandmother's vintage quilt top arrived, with a somewhat greater sense of immediacy attached to it. I removed it from the stretcher frame I had been given by a thoughtful friend, tucked it in a stout plastic bag and put it away for the duration. The pattern is called "Patience Corner." Each block consists of four smaller blocks, each of which is made up of a rectangle and two squares, one of which is a solid colour. In this iteration, the position of the rectangles is rotated within each as well as in the larger blocks. The prints also occur in rotation; what is a rectangle in one large block becomes a square in the adjacent block, and each large block is themed blue, aqua, purple or green. The overall effect is rather kaleidoscopic. The pieces are shadow-quilted with a star at the centers of the small squares and intersecting diagonals in the rectangles. As with most quilts, the hand-quilting is best observed by flipping the work over. At the rate of one block per day and time off for good behaviour, I should have it done within six weeks.
Labels:
Daniel's graduation quilt,
Patience Corner,
quilting
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