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.
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Exhibiting Patience
Day 40: "Patience Corner" is done except for attaching a "made by" label (on order), and my quilt frame is empty. The original plan was to have the Hexagons ready to go on the frame, but I got distracted by a cute "floppy-eared cat" design which, after making a test block, I decided to turn into a wall hanging despite my initial cat being pink. That piece will be the subject of a future post when I get it out of the hoop (it's well on the way to completion). As for Patience Corner, each block is made up of four rectangular pieces and eight squares. I "flipped" the colours so that the fabrics I used for squares in one block appear as rectangles in the next row, giving the whole piece a kaleidoscopic effect. Each rectangle and each square are shadow-quilted just inside the seam lines; each rectangle is then crossed by an elongated X and each square has a five-pointed star in its center. "Patience," did you say? I can hardly wait to get started on the Hexagons!
Update: by special request, a photo of the detail, front and back. The front view shows a single block. The back (solid green) is zoomed in to show one rectangle and two stars.
Labels:
Crow,
Patience Corner,
quilting
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