Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4, Crete Quilt 5, Crete Quilt 6, Crete Quilt 7, Crete Quilt Pt. 8, Crete Quilt Pt. 9, Crete Quilt Pt. 10, Crete Quilt Pt. 11.
Tag: crete quilt
It’s not even worth putting in the episode guide. I think I’m cursed with this quilt. I don’t know what kind of karmic mojo I’ve got coming to me, but I finally took the quilt in to be quilted and found out that I am too late to have it done for Christmas! I knew it would take about 5 weeks, but what hadn’t ever occurred to me was that everyone and their grandmother is getting stuff quilted this time of year. So the shop and all the home-grown quilters they knew with long arm machines have met their quota of projects to take in for this holiday season. Agh!
Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4, Crete Quilt 5, Crete Quilt 6, Crete Quilt 7, Crete Quilt Pt. 8.
I’ve been working on the Crete Quilt for so long now that I’ve got crafter’s block again for anything else. I finished the quilt top and basted that, the batting, and the back together. It really is more of a full than a queen, but oh well. The book uses a great cross-hatch pattern that I’m finding impossible to measure out myself, so I think I am going to send this off to be quilted. My mom told me she has a rule that she only quilts small things herself. Everything big she sends out. This sounds like a good plan to me.
Other posts on this project: Crete Quilt, Crete Quilt 2, Crete Quilt 3, Crete Quilt 4, Crete Quilt 5, Crete Quilt 6, Crete Quilt 7.
So what I actually did was measure all the squared blocks until I found the shortest and narrowest measurements, which were 16″ and 7.5″. The blocks in the original Ice Pops quilt from Denyse Schmidt’s book are 17.5″ by 9.5″. So I’ve lost overall 14″ of width and 6″ of length. I’m definitely going to have to add more pieces to the border, which I’d already cut larger to take this from the full quilt of the book up to a queen, if I keep going with this as a queen size quilt.