Pieces ... pieces ... pieces of cloth

I'm the anal retentive type (who out there is surprised?! ;) ) .

I created an eXcel spreadsheet to track progress of this quilt. So far, in the pieced blocks alone, I have 1136 pieces. PHEW! :)

That's an average of 21.43 pieces per block. The smallest amount of pieces in a block is 5 and the largest is 75.

5 Sets

Here's the 5 sets together laid out on the background fabric and setting triangles. This should give some idea of what the quilt will look like.

K15

This is the last block in set 5. Now I must wait until May for sets 6 and 7.


I keep trying to figure out what the quilt-maker had in mind with this block. Every time I look at it I see an Hindu god/goddess. Kali perhaps? Lakshmi? Bvishnu? I don't know. I just see multiple "arms", and possibly multiple "eyes." Maybe the one on the top is a bindi. I don't know.




Completed:

• 53 full diamond blocks
• 0 short half-diamond blocks (top/bottom)
• 0 long half-diamond blocks (left/right)
• 48 corner stone diamonds
• 0 sashing parallelograms

Left to complete:

• 84 full diamond blocks
• 20 short half-diamond blocks (top/bottom)
• 12 long half-diamond blocks (left/right)
• 124 corner stone diamonds
• 308 sashing parallelograms

Next Lancaster Diamond Set(s) Release

This week I exchanged emails with Ann Holte, the designer of the Lancaster Diamond Quilt Sampler template(s) and block collections.

I was very excited to hear that that Ann will be in Lancaster this weekend (Saturday) at the Lancaster Host Quilt Show -- out by Dutch Wonderland/Sonic (not downtown at the AQS Show at the Convention Center). She will be in the Expo Building a.k.a. "the Tennis Bubble" demonstrating in the Quilters Rule booth. Unfortunately, I have to work on Saturday. Bummer.

Even more exciting is that Sets 6 and 7 are expected to be released in May. Does that mean that I can procrastinate sewing down that last block from Set 5 for another 2 months? Hmmm .... maybe. But, I doubt it! I want to get it off of my sewing table. <*smile*>

Two Diamond Quilts Comparision

As I mentioned in my first post, the quilt called the "Lancaster Diamond Sampler Quilt" is one of three sister quilts. Two of the quilts are diamond quilts, and the third is a quilt made of squares set on point.

I thought that you might enjoy seeing the two diamond quilts next to each other. The coloring of the quilts is truer to the quilt on the right. It's just a bad photo of the quilt on the left, but it's the best shot of the quilt that I have.

The "Lancaster Diamond Sampler Quilt" is on the left.
The "Fanny S. Bucher Quilt" is on the right.

-------Lancaster Diamond Sampler Quilt ---------- Fanny S. Bucher Quilt ------


They share a lot of the same fabrics, and many of the diamonds are the same pattern(s). Each quilter made the quilts their own, however.

The first thing that I notice, is that the Lancaster Diamond Quilt has more applique in it. This is 'bittersweet' for me, because I, as a norm, do not like applique. That isn't entirely fair. I appreciate applique, I'm just not good at it. And, I know that I can never expect to get good at it if I don't practice. So, I am practicing with this quilt.

Let's see if we can pick out some identical (or nearly so) blocks shared between the quilts.


-------Lancaster Diamond Sampler Quilt ---------- Fanny S. Bucher Quilt ------


Diamond 1: Opposite colors (red on yellow vs. yellow on red)
Diamond 2: Different side fillers, otherwise the same block
Diamond 3: Different colors (red/yellow vs. green/yellow)
Diamond 4: Identical block
Diamond 5: Different choice of brown fabric, otherwise the same block

Here's some others that I didn't highlight.

On LDSQ -- near Diamond 4 -- to the right of the 'wagon wheel' ... its matching block on the Bucher quilt is just under the ring for Diamond 1. The leaves are placed on a different point/plane otherwise, it's the same block. [On LDSQ the leaves go up/down, on the Bucher quilt they go left/right]

Can you find the maple leaves in each quilt? (One in each quilt ... slightly different sizes, definitely different colors).

What other matching/similar blocks can you find?

Sunday Progress

Sunday: 6 blocks; 1 block left in set 5 ... then to wait for the next collection to be published


Completed:

• 52 full diamond blocks
• 0 short half-diamond blocks (top/bottom)
• 0 long half-diamond blocks (left/right)
• 48 corner stone diamonds
• 0 sashing parallelograms

Left to complete:

• 85 full diamond blocks
• 20 short half-diamond blocks (top/bottom)
• 12 long half-diamond blocks (left/right)
• 124 corner stone diamonds
• 308 sashing parallelograms

J15

J14

J13

J13 a photo by jvc_scout_mom on Flickr.

I13

I12

I11

Seventy-Five ever loving pieces in this block! (And, that's not counting the three mini diamonds (the three on the left totaling 11 pieces) that I re-did!)