Chris Dodsley @mbCD: Trapunto

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Trapunto & Pinless Curve Blocks - The Something NEW Sampler: Week 4

Another two blocks and one remake on

Maybe you noticed, maybe you didn't, but I'm running a week behind now on this sampler quilt so this week I have the final four blocks to make and I also want to remake Block 2 - The Scraptastic Block. There's some work involved in the remaining blocks so I've decided to put off making Block 7 - Cathedral Windows, to the very end because it looks quite time consuming and I need to do what I can to catch up quickly

Block 6 - Trapunto by M-R @Quilt Matters

Here's the front of the block

and here's the back

This has to be the block I've enjoyed making the most ever!!! I spray basted the layers together - my first time using spray baste and this made it incredibly easy to manage. I hardly used any of the spray - really hardly any, you couldn't even smell the spray in the room, that's how little I used - but the fabrics held fast without pin basting and yet I could easily pull the layers apart when I needed to cut away the excess batting. Having decided to go with the Quilt As You Go (QAYG) option for this block I guess I'll be going that route for the rest of my blocks now too!

Close up detail of front and back

Next up Block 8 - Pinless Curves by Alyssa @Pile O'Fabric
Turns out this block is a continuous Drunkard's Path curve at which I'm well practiced having made a Drunkard's Path quilt previously. I made life more difficult for myself this time by making such a scrappy fabric for the central section, this meant I was cutting then sewing in a curve over LOTS of seams which makes easing the fabric seams together trickier.

And Block 8 lead me straight in to my remake of Block 2 - Scraptastic. I used the cut off sections from the central section of Block 8 and kept adding to them to create a new version of Block 2 (if you're wondering why I'm remaking Block 2 you can read about it here)