Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Gypsy Wife QAL – April Blocks



It’s another month of the Gypsy Wife quilt-along!  I finished up my April blocks a couple weeks ago.  I’m starting to get really excited for this quilt!  

Here are the April blocks.  

From the Heart

Courthouse Steps – 8” 

Courthouse Steps – 7” (I think I’m going to change the outer border – it’s just not right)

More Courthouse Steps – can I tell you how much I LOVE the orange/pink/gray one?!

And one Square in a Square block.  It’s fine, but I need to use better fabrics in these blocks in the future.  It’s too blendy or something.  I need definition!

It’s giving me great pleasure to highlight each block on clumsy kristel's Excel cheat sheet as I finish it!

There are enough blocks after three months that I decided to put them on my design wall in their respective spots.  It’s not an exact layout, but close enough.  I figure this will help me balance my color combos a little better.  And it makes me happy.  I may have to figure out which blocks I need to finish so I can get a section sewn up.  I may not make it to December without finishing this quilt!  But, I am loving the relaxed pace of this QAL.  It’s low stress, and that is a good thing for me.  Helps me not worry about twaddling along on a quilt (usually the QALs move at lightning speed and I’m all “I’ve made three blocks!”).    

I'm linking up to our monthly QAL party at Jaffa Quilts!

6 comments:

  1. Love your heart block - perfect…the squares are cute too :-)

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  2. I love your blocks! I'm with you on the perfect pace of this QAL, I still haven't got over the shock of not being way behind everyone else :-)

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  3. Oooh, yum! And yes, the pace of this QAL is perfect! I really wanted to participate, and there is no way I could have joined in if the schedule was more intense.

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  4. Your blocks are looking great! I kind of love that chicken wire fabric - I'd only seen it in black on white before, but it's neat. I like that paisley in the centre of that one courthouse steps block too. (I have a weird thing for paisleys.)

    I had the same problem with some of my square in square blocks coming out a bit too samey... I need to work on the definition with those things too.

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  5. I must get cracking on this. I didn't know that someone made a Excel sheet of the blocks. Is it in the Flickr group.

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    1. Hi Paige - I just saw your comment. The Excel sheet is on the Flickr group page.

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