Curvy Blocks

On Monday, when I sewed with Sharon and Kay, Kay worked on a project that involved curves. The pattern is probably better known as Drunkard's Path. She had purchased a pattern and templates for the project and brought her Kaffe Fassett fabrics to cut into for it. Well, I finished the borders for the baby quilts that I was working on, and I thought it would be smart to learn how to sew curves, so I got my little stash of ultra-bright batiks and dedicated them to this project. The very first block I made was nearly perfect. It was so easy and it requires no pins! Since I had such good luck with my trial block, I plunged in and cut all the batiks. That was Monday.

By Thursday night, I had sewn them all together! I have them on my design wall and they look fabulous! Here is a picture when about half of the large blocks were finished and placed on the design wall.

I have considered what I will do with this quilt. I will make it into a quilt, by the way. But it is so not me! I am a traditionalist! I am neat and order (at least with the quilts I make), so this is way out of my comfort range.

I decided that I would make it and then donate it to the Tigerettes for a fund raiser. They could display it in their booth at Wheels of Progress Festival. There could be other places where it could be seen and sell chances on it as a raffle. I think it would bring in a good bit of money for the squad. If nothing else, it's motivation for working hard on it to finish. I would take it to Wilma to have it quilted.

I've taken a picture of the complete set of blocks laid out on my design wall. I need to get it into the computer, though. My next step is to "square up" all the blocks. There were 36 larger blocks and 18 smaller blocks. All need to be squared up. I still have a clean kitchen counter, so I will do it down here.

I am actually motivated!