This is F-6. I'm being a bit cheeky to call this one complete because I haven't quite finished it. The original block has four melons (or orange peels, if you like) appliquéd to the centre red square. Mine did too, but it looked so awful that I unpicked the appliqué and am still mulling over whether to re-stitch them. Ultimately, I do want to, but the pieces are so very tiny (the red square is 1.5" just to give you an idea of scale) that I'm not sure I will ever get them neat enough.
So, for now, I've added the block sans melons and have made a wee note to come back to it at some stage and decide how to finish it. Perhaps there's scope for me to do something different in the difficult spots, thereby stamping my own mark on Jane's design?
I loved piecing the H-6 block. At first I wasn't looking forward to those quarter circles but they weren't that bad at all. Have I mentioned before how much I adore red and white?
H-7 is a bordered Ohio Star and came together without any fuss. Even though these 1930s fabrics aren't my normal style, I am enjoying them immensely and dipping into my stash for different colours and designs for each block is a lot of fun.
It's growing! Slowly, but still growing ...
It's gorgeous!!! I like the block without the melon pieces, maybe you could quilt an outline of them in perle or something when the time comes?
ReplyDeleteDear Jan is coming along so well I gave up and gave the book to another quilter as could not follow how to make the blocks. There was a dear jane quilt at FOQ so many lovely quilts and your friend Trudi had been so busy lots of quilts quilted by her
ReplyDeletethey may be teeny tiny blocks, but you are going well with them
ReplyDeleteOh, you goodness! They are adorable!
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