Saturday, October 18, 2014

The beginning

Rose Haunold Bradly
Facebook 10/10/14




This first picture was posted on facebook and has inspired me to take on this quilt. It fits my profile: small pieces (1 inch blocks), use of scraps, ability to hand sew and addictive. 
This quilt was designed by Susan H Garman. I ordered the pattern and received it this past week. Ohmygosh is a great name for this quilt. Slow, tedious and addictive. I have a ice cream bucket of 2 inch squares, cut apart they would be 4 squares. I have many colors and creams and whites. So I began cutting and last evening I made 7 (9 patches). I will press them tomorrow and then put a sample block together. I will do them by hand and assemble 9patches as I go. I will need 550 9 patches. Let's see how long until I reach this goal...my guess...beginning of next summer. I will be doing 2 mystery quilts Enid of this year into beginning of next. This would be a good take along project on travels to Arizona in February til April. I am also doing the addictive quilt Dutch treat which is applique. So this is the beginning!