Friday 25 October 2013

The Time Has Come ...

... to break into my precious red and white stash of fabric and finally start a quilt!

Oh how I love thee!
As I've told you before, I've been picking up red and white fabrics in various sales for the past two years (and been gifted some lovelies too).  They've been hoarded in a box while I gathered enough and waited for the perfect pattern to drop into my lap.  So, what "perfect pattern" has made me take the rotary cutter to my lovelies?

Well, thing is I don't have one.  What I do have is a long-held wish to have a medallion quilt, which started long before even the fabulous Marcelle Medallion and Sarah Fielke Medallion phenomena of recent months.  So, a medallion quilt it is!

I don't have a pattern in mind, just going to make a start (yes, another one) and see where it takes me.  No doubt it shall take me by way of some fiddly maths, but that's all part of my challenge!

As my centre block, I used Little Miss Shabby's Super-sized Morning Star instructions.


Everything was going swimmingly until


I didn't read the instruction that said "orient as illustrated" for those central flying geese blocks up there - doh!

So, instead of a starflower where the fabric points of the stars matched with each other, I inadvertently switched them around.  I huffed and I puffed and I sighed and I reached reluctantly for the seam ripper.  And, then I thought "I've seen that star before" and headed to the bookshelf to check.


And, what do you know, I have seen it before and it's got my name on it!  See?  "Sarah's Choice."


It seemed churlish to take a seam ripper to those points when this block kind of chose me so I left well alone and finished stitching her up.  So I now have a medallion beginning - woohoo!!!

Who knows what borders I'll add next - stripes with cornerstones, checkerboards, hsts (aaagh), pinwheels, stars or crosses?  Blimey, the choices are so exciting.  I'm looking forward to letting this one grow as I go!


13 comments:

  1. You are really brave! Starting without a pattern? Someone has to do the first step ... This will be awsome

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  2. This is going to be so good, starting with a Sarah's choice star is perfect.

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  3. It looks great, I didn't even realise it was different from what you'd seen originally! It was obviously meant to be :o)

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  4. Wooho! Hooray for happy accidents. It looks great so far :)

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  5. My brain is befuddled by germs because I just cannot understand what the 'mistake' was and only see a perfect start to a medallion.

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  6. I had to go look at your link to work out what the problem was! No, Sarah's choice is a perfect start, and you must go with the flow. It was meant!

    Looks lovely, and I am eager to see progress!

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  7. How funny! A block that chooses you! Perfect! Loving your centre! Jxo

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  8. it just had to be Sarah`s block and it looks fabulous a real wow to it

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  9. What a fabulous block Sarah, and very serendipitous considering the name

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  10. Very pretty centre of a quilt! Great name too. ;-) I've just made a red and white maple leaf quilt. I had so many red/red and white fabrics. However, I did find when I put them together the reds were all slightly different. I think it looks good still. At least I hope it does!

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  11. Very pretty centre of a quilt! Great name too. ;-) I've just made a red and white maple leaf quilt. I had so many red/red and white fabrics. However, I did find when I put them together the reds were all slightly different. I think it looks good still. At least I hope it does!

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