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.