Carpenter’s Wheel

 I was browsing on the internet recently and had a look at the Missouri Star site.  Jenny Doan is a legend, and she had a great quilt which was made completely from one Carpenter’s Star block, made from a layer cake of 10” squares.  It looks fabulous, and as I was admiring it, I thought ‘that would look great as a Linus quilt using smaller squares!’  So here is my version. 

 It used up a lot of scraps and you only need a 6” square of colours to make it!  The 6” squares are made into HSTs with white squares and then trimmed to 5.5”.  The plain white squares are cut at 5.5” and I’m sure you can work it out!  I cut some kits out ready for our Linus get together, and they were snapped up.  Thanks, Jenny! 

Not so impressive!

 I have been busy cutting Linus kits etc and trying to make some sense of the orphans drawer.  I found a bag of 5.5” blocks and tried to make them play nicely together. 

I have realised that if there are only three blocks, I can always make an extra one!  There were three drunkards path blocks for a centre, so I made one more.  Good to get the orphans into a family!  I have loosely grouped the other blocks together.  

The orange border has added a bit of pizzazz, and the addition of the blue and purple squares has eked the pieced blocks out. 

There.  A jazzy batik border and it’s done!  Not the most impressive of quilts, but a finish.  I’ll find something interesting for the backing, and it’ll all be good. 

Impressive!

 Well, look at this finish! 

A Baltimore quilt for Project Linus!  Well, a Baltimore panel, actually. I can’t remember whether I bought this panel or it was donated, but it cost £6.50 and with the addition of the burgundy border I think it looks great!  I quilted it around the shapes and some scallops along the border (a machine stitch).  Great fun.