Lynn Carson Harris

Every Last Piece - feature quilt of the week - Paris on a Shoestring

This week's feature quilt is Paris on a Shoestring. It is a variation of Nancy, one of the quilts that is patterned in my book. Both quilts use the same string pieced triangle units.

I had this fabulous Paris Maps print that I wanted to use and I wanted to keep it in the largest possible pieces. Instead of making four large star blocks, I pieced this quilt in rows leaving each area of the map print as a single piece of fabric.

There are a lot of ways to put together quilts using the string pieced triangle units.

This quilt also features a scrappy binding. I cut lots of scrap pieces to the 2 1/4 size that I like to use and sewed them together as usual.

 Finished size: 47'' by 47''.

There is still quite a large pile of string pieced triangles and squares that I plan to combine into one quilt. 

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Lucky Strike Quilt - an artist trade

We've been working hard on wedding prep this summer, mostly that involves lots of cleaning in the barn. 

I took advantage of a clean barn wall yesterday to take some pictures of my latest quilt finish.  This quilt will be for the wedding photographer; we have worked out an artist trade. 

The pattern is Lucky Strike by Vintage Modern Quilts. 

Megan, the soon to be bride, picked the pattern and fabrics to suit the wedding photographer's mid century aesthetic. She chose fabrics from my stash and says the inspiration for the fabric pull was "beachy." There are two prints and the rest are solids. The pattern calls for 9 half yards but we used about 18 fabrics. There was a bit of figuring before diving in to the cutting to make sure I could get all of the bowling pins cut from the smaller fabric pieces.

The pins are quilted with a loopy figure eight design in a pretty peach thread and the background has randomly spaced vertical lines in white thread to match the background.

There are a few scattered turquoise "KAPOW" style starbursts to add to that vintage feel.

I am really pleased with the finished look of this quilt. 

Finished quilt: 63'' by 80''
Batting: Quilter's Dream wool
Quilting thread: Aurifil #2021, Glide coral 51625, Floriani turquoise pf293

 

Framed

Do you remember my new custom Sizzix die? I used some of the little one inch squares I cut with it and made a mini version of Don't Fence Me In.

I love this design; even small scale it is a great way to showcase quilting motifs. 

Rather than loading it on the longarm, I quilted it on my domestic Bernina. I stitched in the ditch around each of the little 1/2 inch half square triangles.

The tiny stippling around the wreath helps give the feathers and triangles a bit more definition.

After cleaning up in the barn I think I have located another quilt photography location! What do you think? I'll try some larger quilts there and see how they turn out. 

The finished quilt is 12" by 12". 
Quilted with Aurifil #2021.

The Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild is participating in a mini quilt swap with the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild. This quilt is for my secret partner in the swap. I hope she likes it. 

Crafturday

Coal Seam

Coal Seam

Coal Seam is a result of experimenting with inserting slivers of orange fabric into triangles of black fabric. When deciding on the layout, I tried lining up the orange strips from one triangle to another and was amused to see that I could have cut the triangles from a long strip of black with a skinny strip of orange through the center. That would likely have resulted in a less whimsical collection of triangles and it's not the way my brain works when I am sewing.

I like to cut and sew parts and see where that journey takes me. I pieced them together with the Orange lined up partly because that was NOT the way they were originally constructed.

The quilt is hand quilted with black thread. I extended the lines of the triangles to the edge of the quilt.

There is also a small piece of the orange in the binding.

This quilt was started in a workshop with Luke Haynes this winter at QuiltCon.

I had to quilt it quickly because Gwen Marston asked me if she could include it in her latest book, Free Range Triangles. She was already at her deadline so I stitched with a 'flaming needle and burning thread' as my mother would say. 

I shipped it out to the publisher before I even took a photo of it. I have it back now and can share it with you. The quilting is still a bit sparse near the edges of the quilt. I plan to add some more quilting in white thread. 

I am eagerly awaiting my copy of Gwen's new book.