Peacing it Together

Vest

The other quilt top I pieced for display at the January 2011 fabric sale in the Quilt Room at MCC Connections. It was a fun and easy one to piece and is called Charming Fractions. This month I am piecing a quilt for the quilt room called "White Chocolate". Look for that one in a later blog. Waiting in the wings for the pieces to be cut is a pallet of pinks and browns for a quilt top called "Raspberry Truffles". Don't these names sound delectable? Yesterday while we had another episode of winter outdoors I worked on a smaller project: a pieced vest. I had won the pattern during one of the quilt shop hops. If I like the vest I hope to make another one using a piece of silk that my daughter Kristin brought me from Cambodia.

Charming Fractions

Quilt Frenzy

November 2010 the quilt room at MCC received a large fabric donation. Plans were made for a fabric sale to be held in january 2011. It was decided that several quilt tops should be assembled for display during the sale days. Six women busily began designing, cutting, and piecing. I chose pallets for 2 tops, one of them a design called "Spinning Rails".

Color pallet of the Spinning Rails quilt. All the strips and squares are cut - let the piecing begin.

Chain piecing triangles on the "rails".

The "block" of the Spinning Rail quilt pattern

168 block units ready to be sewn together.

The finished quilt: Spinning Rails

Border deatail of Spinning Rails; I really did like the combination of reds, beige, and black accent.

Spinning Rails - What a feeling of accomplishment to have it completed. This quilt was started before the MCC fabric sale in January, but I realized I would be too pressured to complete the quilt top before the sale dates; I sewed together several rows, enough to display as a sample.