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BLOCK HEAD: Vol 3 - Project 2 - Broken Dishes
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Vol 3 - Project 2 - Broken Dishes. Well I got this one finished. I played around with the design a little and couldn't resist adding a bit of contrast to all that blue! A BIT OF A CATCH UP. The piecing was simply grid quilted. Here's some pics of Non Harriet projects I've been working on.
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BLOCK HEAD: October 2013
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Thursday, October 17, 2013. Vol 3 - Design - Linking Blocks. The sewing stops for a bit now while some lessons in design happen. Designing is scary to me. I'm hoping that with a bit of a push from Harriet and Carrie I can plow through this. Using the Snowball to connect a couple of 16 patch blocks. The book goes on to d...
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BLOCK HEAD: December 2012
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Sunday, December 30, 2012. Vol 2 - Sophomore Final. Yes, it's time for the Final Exam. If you don't already know how this works, a quick explanation. For the very last project in the book, Harriet and Carrie set a Final Exam. This is what you get. A photograph of the finished quilt. An illustration of a single block.
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BLOCK HEAD: April 2013
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Saturday, April 6, 2013. QA Vol 3 - Techniques. I have some triangles to cut. Harriet gives suggestions on using 8 different methods of cutting half square triangles. I gave some of them a try. METHOD #1 - ROTARY CUT. As suggested I'm putting the results of all the different methods into envelopes with notes on the tech...
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BLOCK HEAD: February 2012
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Saturday, February 25, 2012. Vol 2 - Project 11 - Star Chain. Hi fellow quilty people and thank you to those who left comments on my last posting - it's all really encouraging. This next project introduces internal frames - here's Harriet's quilt. Here's mine laid out, unsewn without borders. There are several units to ...
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BLOCK HEAD: May 2011
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Sunday, May 29, 2011. Vol 2 - Project 11 - Harriet's Navajo Dreams - MAKING. I've been busy making blocks. These are some of them.there are more. So here is the block with a 1/4" seam marked all the way around. Those seams look pretty good. So why have I made so many blocks when the quilt only need 30? I should first ex...
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BLOCK HEAD: September 2013
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Vol 3 - Project 2 - Broken Dishes. Well I got this one finished. I played around with the design a little and couldn't resist adding a bit of contrast to all that blue! A BIT OF A CATCH UP. The piecing was simply grid quilted. Here's some pics of Non Harriet projects I've been working on.
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BLOCK HEAD: August 2011
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Vol 2 - Project 8 - Five Patch Chain - Quilting. A BIG THANK YOU. QUILTING - FREE FORM (EEK)! Keeping a promise to myself to get out of the quilting box and do some free-form practice on this quilt - I was surprised at how easy it actually was to do. Keeping another promise to myself, I also...
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BLOCK HEAD: June 2011
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Vol 2 - Project 11 - Ian's Quilt. The quilt is finished, but the binding still needs some hand sewing. Yes, those are sea turtles . They've been appliqued on with raw edge quilting. There is one on the label too. Ian had a special affinity for sea turtles, so I wanted them on his quilt. I'll baste...
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BLOCK HEAD: July 2011
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Follow the progress of a beginner quilter working her way through Harriet Hargrave's series of Quilter's Academy Books. Quilter's Academy - Volume 2 - Sophomore Year. Vol 3 - Junior Year. Sunday, July 31, 2011. Vol 2 - Project 9 - Four Patch Chain On Point. As usual, we start with the smallest unit and build from there. The technique for making the chain can be a little tedious -well for me anyway, but then I prefer to quilt rather than piece :). Step 1 - sew a dozen of these. Step 9 - press, measure and...