Ok, so Pi Day is tomorrow - 3/14 - but I couldn't wait.
I've been wanting to make a Wagon Wheel or Ferris Wheel block for several years, simply haven't gotten around to it. The joy and bane of rotary tools is that they make straight cutting so easy.
The 10-degree wedge ruler was a find at a quilt show... about three years ago. {It had to age on my bookshelf, you know.} When I was finally ready to start, I considered using bright fabrics but have a collection of oddly colored green, beige, red, and white fabrics sitting unused in my stash. Hmm.
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| Wedge ruler and fabric pull for Ferris Wheel blocks |
So I made a sample that turned out to be a mess. Granted, I extended the ends of the ruler in both directions by adding my regular ruler but the wedges are disconcertingly inaccurate. Into the Future Box it went. {Doesn't that sound better than UFO? Like a Hope Chest, perhaps?}
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| First Wheel |
Rod Kiracofe showed a Wheel quilt at a recent lecture with Julie Silber that has similarities with my original plan. The varying blade widths are attractive here.
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Julie Silber holds a Wheel quilt
from Rod Kiracofe's collection |
On the drive home I remembered
Audrey's quilt with striped binding. Red and white striped binding. And I have some red and white stripe fabric. I pulled everything out again adding a random grey-green solid for a background. {I'd forgotten she put quarter circles on her quilt.} Possibilities.
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Quarter Ferris wheel block
with red and white striped binding |
This was the last photo I snapped before leaving on the family emergency so there's no telling when I will get back to it or how it may change. Well, it's been in the Future Box before.
What other circles have I made this past year? Well, I finished the
Thirty Year Sampler
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| Thirty Year Sampler quilt |
and
Rabbit 1.
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| Rabbit 1, a Strips 'n Curves variation |
Pluto and the moon on these
Christmas stockings,
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| Velveteen Christmas stockings for grandchildren |
the
Racetrack quilt,
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| Racetrack quilt |
Circular Anomaly {which isn't finished},
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| Circular Anomaly quilt in progress |
and the
Propeller baby quilt {which is still basted but not quilted.}
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| Start Your Engines propeller baby quilt basted |
Not a bad collection of Pi(e)s. Off to make an apple pie. Lots of family around so it will be gone before it's cooled. Yum!
Enjoy the day, Ann
