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Nearly Insane Quilt Progress - April 2014 |
Happy Easter! High days and holidays are always a good excuse to lay out all my Nearly Insane quilt blocks and have a review of what stage I am at. So far this is 14 months worth of hand stitching, and at the current progress I expect all the blocks to be completed by the beginning of August 2014.
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Red and White Nearly Insane Quilt - April 2014 |
Without a design wall, taking the progress photo is becoming increasingly difficult, but you can get the idea from this photograph that there are just about 13 full blocks to go. I don't think I have done any sashing this time around, but I have made background progress on the border, and the canoe block cornerstones, just nothing completed to count this time. In fact looking at this photo, a bit of effort on my part for some extra sashing would have made this stage look even MORE complete.
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Nearly Insane Quilt blocks - April 2014 |
Just a reminder if you are visiting for the first time, the work so far has been entirely hand stitched using the English paper piecing technique. This stack of blocks are just screaming out to be put together, and I hope that in the next few weeks everything is in place for me to start doing just that.
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Nearly Insane Quilt - Electric Quilt Software |
The Electric Quilt layout has been updated on the side bar, and the remaining blocks look very few and far between. As I said in a post a few days ago, the Electric Quilt software is a perfect partner for this project, especially if you feel as if you have it sitting there and haven't used it as much as you imagined you would once you first bought it, as was my case. It is a real opportunity to navigate your way around the package.
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Nearly Insane Quilt - Red and White |
Here are the statistics for the quilt so far ....
Blocks = 72
Edge blocks = 23
Cornerstones =49
Half Cornerstone = 15
Sashes = 135
Border Units = 13
And here are the sums for how many pieces I have done so far.
Blocks and Edge Blocks = 4101
Cornerstones = 441
Half Cornerstones = 90
Sashes = 135
Border Units = 52
TOTAL = 4819
Joining up at Sarah Did It! for all you English paper piecers at Help for Hexie-aholics , Whoop Whoop Friday (keep 'em coming!), and Crazy Mom Quilts.