I was fortunate this past fall to be asked to join
a group of quilters who want to do
a round robin quilt project.
I have been intrigued by these group quilts,
and the collaboration that goes into them,
so I jumped at the chance to be included!
Here is the premise:
Each quilter makes a center,
creates a theme, and a layout.
Puts together a journal to travel with it,
so that each person can record notes,
thoughts, etc when the work on the quilt.
There are ten of us.
We will each get to work on each others
quilts, and at the end of October
we will receive our quilt top back!
I, of course, have decide on a
mermaid/sea theme.
So that needs a mariner's compass for the center!
I couldn't find any patterns I liked,
so I decided I would draft my own center.
pattern as a base for the circle.
I taped the four arcs together o make a circle,
Just as I altered that pattern for my Circle Star Quilt.
Then I flipped it over and started drafting the mariner's compass.
I used a protractor to make sure my angles were correct.
I wanted it to be a fuller, simpler compass,
many I have seen have just too many points for me.
This made 8 triangle parts that needed to be pieced.
I picked two opposites that looked the best,
and traced them four times each.
noting the colors that should be in each part.
Each triangle has three different foundation pieced parts
that were then sewn together.
I laid it out hoping it would look they way I wanted to.
And Yay! I loved it.
I trimmed it up and added the corner pieces.
Now it's all ready to be shipped off at the end of the month!
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I can't wait to see how everyone
adds to each of the quilts.
Happy New Year!
May 2017 be all you need it to be.
Happy New Year!
May 2017 be all you need it to be.
