Today, I have finally put together the blocks I made as part of Barbara Brackman's Austen Family Album Block of the Week last year.
I used Barbara's Modernism line for this BOW, combining it with other fabrics. For he first 12 blocks I used Modernism fabrics, tea stained muslin and vintage handwork and hankies; for blocks in weeks 13 through 24, I used Modernism fabrics and tea stained muslin; for the final 12 blocks, I used Modernism fabrics, tea stained muslin and fabrics from Paula Nadelstern's Metallica line to mix in some contemporary fabric with the more traditional.
I followed Barbara's Historically Modern blog and there she posted descriptions of elements of Modernism design. One of these elements is scale - think about the huge flowers painted by Georgia O'Keefe. So, I decided that I would use scale in my design for this quilt using the Modernism fabric, and made my version of a giant 9-patch block. It so far measures 99" square, and I am considering adding borders to take it to around 120" sq.
I hope to get a full size picture if I can lay it out at the library where my guild is having a sew-in tomorrow.
Missed your blog posts! Clever idea for setting these blocks - I loved your blocks all along and what we can see of the completed top looks like you did a great job figuring out how to group them in your nine patch. I haven't even started setting mine...
ReplyDeleteUpdated with a picture of the quilt laid out. Pictures of each of the 9 blocks are on my Flickr photostream.
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