Pillow

Purchase Fair Isle Star Pattern

Last year, during my attempt to learn a little about the history of knitting, I designed a few star quilt patterns that were inspired by traditional knitting patterns. I had picked up a set of Grandma’s House fat quarters earlier, which I used to make these stars for a mini quilt. Unfortunately, once I finished making this block, I realised that I had printed it at 94%. So I had to remake this one for the mini and ended up with an orphan block.

Purchase Fair Isle Star Pattern

This year I am taking care of almost all my orphan blocks and some of them are being turned into pillows for the guest bed in my husband’s office. Apart from making the office a pleasant place for him to work from, I also have a selfish reason for this. My favourite bookshelf is in that room, so sometimes I like to read in there. The guest bed will be much more comfortable with all the pillows in the back. Once I had gotten over being upset at my own mistake, I knew that I would love to turn this Fair Isle star quilt block into a pillow. I am working on the other matching pillow this week.

Here is another set of index card drawings from the icad project

Psychedelic Gravitational Waves

I made this card on June 23rd, which was Alan Turing’s birthday. He has had a profound influence on me and his story makes me extremely sad.

Devils Postpile lava columns, California

Drawn from a photo I took there

Dancing Neurons

Peacock feather – fractal-inspired

Transit of Venus, Voyage of the Endeavour with Captain Cook in 1769

We were lucky enough to witness the last Venus Transit live in 2012.

Solar prominence

While writing this post, I realised that this set of index card drawings is a bit science-biased! It was definitely not planned that way.

Until next time,
-Soma

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Doctor Who Weeping Angel Sewing Pattern | Whims And Fancies

This 10″ Weeping Angel block started it all. I had just started creating paper piecing patterns a few months earlier and decided to embark upon creating a Weeping Angel quilt pattern. Of course, it had to be a paper piecing pattern. I also wanted to optimize the pattern to have minimal seam alignment for easier piecing. I won’t lie, as a novice pattern designer, it was hard work. I worked on it slowly and finally the pattern was written and shortly afterwards, the block was stitched. I had a tremendous boost of confidence after designing this pattern.

Doctor Who Weeping Angel Quilt Pattern | Whims And Fancies

This year I am taking care of my orphan blocks, and it was time to pull this one out. I haven’t done much FMQ, I am married to my walking foot. I thought I’d give FMQ another go on this one. There are a few spots where the curves could be a little better. I tried really hard not to fuss over them. I used a yellow thread for the overall quilting because I didn’t want the quilting to show up too much on the border. The binding is done in the same blue fabric as the background of the block. It is now residing in my husband’s office on the guest bed along with the Fairy Door pillow I made earlier.

4th Of July Fabric Giveaways | Whims And Fancies

I mentioned giving away two sets of four fat quarters in the last Freadom Quilt blog post. A huge thank you to all who read it and left such wonderful comments. Your comments always mean so much. It’s my pleasure to announce Marjorie Nath and Marly as the two winners. Congratulations!!

Lastly, here are the latest cards from the third week of my index card drawings for the icad project –

Icad 2015 - Route 66 Neo Sign | Whims And Fancies