Sunday, February 3, 2013

Heritage Quilt Blocks 2 and 3

Blocks 2 and 3 of the Heritage Quilt I wrote about in this post.

I struggled for many months with Block 2 as I just could not decide what to do next.  During the December holidays I decided this was another unfinished object that just had to be finished.

The block is constructed with all the different fabrics used in the quilt and a bit of embroidery.  Netting is placed on top of the block and cut away in certain places to create different textures.  Not one of my favourite blocks I'm afraid...

The embroidered squares of Block 3 was also done on 4 different fabrics.

Clover and stitch

During the first meeting of 2024 in February, friend Ansulet Swanepoel demonstrated a rather mind-blowing technique enabling quilters to tur...