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2/18/2020

February 18th, 2020

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Here are some pictures of my flower block in different colours with a plain white background. I have identical twin nieces who are celebrating their birthday today. These two blocks make me think of them - both are beautiful!
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For all of these blocks I treated the bow-tie inset square like a cathedral window block and inset yet another fabric before hand-stitching down the curves. I do like this look!
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These six blocks are 6 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches unfinished. I used the Wonder Curve Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful to make the smallest size of Shimmer Block from their pattern book Text Me. .
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2/15/2020

Still sidetracked...

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I have been using the SKW Quick Curve Ruler to make the three different sizes of Shimmer blocks. I want to make a quilted birthday 'card'. Here are some pics of my process.
This is my first attempt using the smallest size of shimmer block Each square finishes to 1 1/2 in. There are too many leaves in this attempt and I don't care for the inset stem that requires inset background pieces to the left and right of the flower. I do like the center of the flower which is done by using the easy bow-tie block method. 
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This is my second attempt but making a bigger sized shimmer block. This shimmer block finishes to 2 1/2 inches. I tried using background 'rectangles' instead of squares to each side of the flower to do away with a tiny strip of background fabric however ​I am not liking how the inset stem in the bottom half results in misaligned seam lines to the flower top half. 
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Here is the next attempt at the same 2 1/2 inch sized shimmer block. I like the leaves closer to the flower and without the upward tip piece. For the stem on this one I inset a folded strip of 1 inch stem fabric into the seam that joined both leaves. Then I pressed it flat and applique stitched it in place. This results in upper and lower seam lines lining up which I like but it created more bulk in the stem due to the method.
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Now I'm back to the smallest sized shimmer block that finishes at 1 1/2 inches. I am happy with this layout. I used a bigger sized flower insert (bowtie method) and I pieced the 1 inch stem fabric after I trimmed the stem side of the leaves by 1/4 inch. This resulted in a less bulky stem and the seam lines in the upper and lower halves line up nicely. I quickly quilted it on my domestic machine using Peltex (bag making stiff stuff) and finishing it easily with a satin stitch.


Here is the back of the 6 1/2 inch square block. 
I am happy with this size and layout. Now I will make one in brighter fabrics with a white background. I'll post pics when it is done.
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2/1/2020

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There is a good chance that the next expected grandchild will make an early entrance. So I got busy and made this pattern from Sew Kind of Wonderful's latest pattern book TEXT ME. These patterns are very well written. I missed adding a small blue strip between the letters V and E so I quilted it with vertical lines defining each letter to help separate these letters visually. I quilted it with two layers of 100% cotton batting. It can either be used as a small quilt (finished at 34" X 39 1/2") or as a wall hanging.
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    Mary Light 
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