Monday, March 21, 2011

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.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

5 Sets

5 Sets by jvc_scout_mom

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

P1270438 by jvc_scout_mom

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

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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 ------
2Diamonds - Comparison

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 ------
2Diamonds - identical/similar blocks identified

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, March 6, 2011

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




J15

J14

J14

J13

J13 by jvc_scout_mom
J13 a photo by jvc_scout_mom on Flickr.

I13

I13

I12

I12

I11

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!)