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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Splendidly Marching Along

With all of our activity here-n-there lately, I simply made yesterday a Stay-At-Home-and-Relax-with-Movies day once summer school ended. Therefore, while the girls were watching movies in the afternoon, I made more progress on my Splendidly Marching Along blocks.

Enough units were made to create a 5x7 layout of the 9" blocks; that'd be 34 quarter-square-triangle units in each red and blue for the 17 "hour-glass" blocks; and 36 half-square triangle units in each red and blue for the 18 "light-bordered" blocks.

Naturally, there was some trimming involved with the smaller "light bordered" blocks...

This was the status of the quilt when I turned everything off for the evening of relaxing with my iPod Kindle book. A secondary pattern emerged when the top was pieced together. Borders are yet to be determined; the quilt center measures roughly 45"x63".

10 comments:

  1. Where did you find this?? I think I may have to make one....

    You manage to come up with the neatest patterns.

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  2. Wow - that looks really good!

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  3. Great blocks, and I never get tired of Red White and Blue quilts. Did you make up the pattern yourself, it's great.

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  4. This quilt is turning out great! Is this one you're donating or one to keep for yourself?

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  5. Love it! I can't believe you sewed all those blocks AND got the top together in one day!

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  6. Love how you used your extra pieces, I might have to borrow that for the back of my turquoise and white one.

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  7. So cute! Amazing what happens when you just play for a while. Love the pinwheel look of the hourglass blocks and the big square little square look of the alternating blocks, just perfect for a QOV. Looks like you are sPending some good boat time with the family this summer. Great way to stay cool.

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  8. Very nice! I love all of the motion in this quilt.

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  9. This looks like fun...good job. I'm gonna have to do one of these, I'll put this on my long list of quilts I wanna make! You know I love Red, white and blue quilts and I just want to make every one I see. I'm going to use a few of these blocks in the RW & B quilt I'm working on now. Thanks for the inspiration!

    Looks like your having fun this summer with your family. I love the swimming pics!

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  10. I was hoping there would be something in comments on where you got this pattern. I really like the looks of it. Do you mind sharing where the pattern came from?

    Thanks Cindy
    frazzyus@yahoo.com

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