Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - The Blocks

I blogged about this quilt in my previous post, and this blog is all about the front and back of each block from Canada, It's Provinces and Territories.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories

There is a lot of free motion quilting in this quilt (done on a domestic machine) and I have to say, it is my favourite part of making a quilt.

The inspiration for a lot of the quilting patterns are Leah Day designs.  Check out her 400+ designs at The Free Motion Quilting Project.

I made a few changes to the original patterns, added some 3-D elements to some blocks, and a few others as noted below.

Yukon

Yukon - back

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island - back

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia  - detail

Québec

I believe this pattern represents the weaving industry of Québec, the original was pieced, I decided to weave my strips instead. 

Québec - back

Ontario

Ontario back

Alberta

This was originally an 8" block which I changed to a 12" block so it may look slightly different.

Alberta - back

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan - back

Saskatchewan - detail

British Columbia

The pattern for this block was originally one fish on a rectangular block, I added the second fish to fill in the 12" block.

British Columbia

British Columbia - detail

Manitoba

Manitoba - back

Newfoundland

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

New Brunswick - back

Northwest Territories and Nunavit

Northwest Territories and Nunavit

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - back

Linking to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday and The Needle and Thread Network.


Happy Quilting,

Terry

Canada, Its Provinces and Territories

A couple of months ago, I asked if anyone recognized any of the blocks on this post.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories

The reason I asked was because all the blocks in this quilt were designed by Canadian quilters from across Canada to represent their provinces or territories.

The patterns were printed in The Canadian Quilter throughout year 2000 as a Millenium project.

I was interested to see if anyone reading might have made these blocks wayyyyyyy back then.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - back

My personal challenge was to use only my own hand dyed fabrics and to add grey to each block. The only commercial fabrics are the solid black and the black and white stripe onto which I stitched the name of the provinces and territories in white. It's a little hard to read,  I wanted the names on the quilt but I did not want them to stand out.

This was a guild project initiated by one of our members, Helen B. who would distribute patterns only to members who had completed their previous month's block.  All the blocks were made while participating in this challenge but then it took many attempts (and 13/14 years) to complete.

I quilted the "boxes" to look like wood grain.

wood grain pattern

The grey border was free motion quilted in a grid (the opposite black border was quilted with diagonal lines)

Bottom left border

being blocked

being blocked

I use my display wall to block my quilts.  I have four panels of foam insulation that I covered with flannel (one side beige - one side white).  The panels are 24" wide, so I place as many as I need on my tables, in this case I only needed three.

This quilt measures 66" x 75".

The label was not sewed on when I took the picture of the back.  I placed it at the bottom of the grey strip.

label

Next post, I'll show close-ups of all the block, front and back.

Thanks for stopping by.

Linking to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

UFO Challenge for October

#6 - Advanced Sampler II

I'm taking part in Judy Laquidara's UFO Challenge at Patchwork Times.  

Click here to see who else completed their UFOs.  Number 9 is next, another 
O'Tannenbaum for me.

Top done and sandwiched

I did get the top finished, sandwiched and 7 of the blocks are quilted. I still have to come up with a name for this one.

Here it is as a work in progress. The blocks were all made, ready to set.

work in progress

Got to get quilting.

Have a great day,

Terry

Shadow Blocks

Quilt # 103

Shadow Blocks - front

This sampler was on my UFO Challenge list at Patchwork Times. I completed the top before the end of May which is when the quilt was supposed to be completed, but it wasn't quilted or bound.

But it is now. Has been for a while, just haven't got around to post about it.

My blocks were made while teaching a sampler class. There are still a few stacks of blocks sitting around from more classes.

Here are some close-up of some of the blocks:

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Paper-pieced Summer's Sun

Breadfruit Applique

Set-in Seam Stripped 8-point Star

Star of Hearts

Since I used the same fabric for the lattice that is in the background of the blocks I added a row of machine embroidery to define the blocks.

machine embroidery around block

Shadow Blocks - back

I decided to only use 12 blocks on the front of the quilt but added 3 more to the back and used the Schoolhouse roof as my label.

label

DOCUMENTATION

Quilt Name: Shadow Blocks

Description: sampler – 12 blocks on front – 3 more blocks on back

Pattern: 12” Blocks -

Front :- Circle Wreath, Log Cabin, Fifty-four Forty or Fight, Wild Goose Chase var., Ohio Star, Breadfruit Applique, Paper-pieced Summer's Sun, Grandmother's Flower Garden,Attic Windows, Star of Hearts, Set-in Seam Stripped 8-point Star, Honey-Bee,

Back: T-Block, Drunkards Path variation, Schoolhouse,

Size: 57” x 74”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Gold, blue, black

Construction Techniques: Templates, strip piecing, hand applique, half-square and quarter-square triangles, english paper piecing, flying geese, paper piecing, diagram assembly, buttonhole stitch, Y-seam construction, drafting T-block, backed applique, curved piecing.

Back: 100% cotton

Batting: Hobbs 80/20

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Long arm machine quilted

Quilted by: Marnie Mascioli from Calico Cat Quilting

Sleeve: no

Label: yes

Date completed: 2012

Maker: Terry Whyte

Grey and Red Sampler

Quilt # 96

More documentation!

Grey and Red Sampler

This is the second sampler I made using the quilt as you go technique.

My best bet as to when this was made is the late nineties. I now always add a label or at least sign the front of the quilt with my name and the year.


Lattice was added to each block and each block was quilted individually and then stitched together by machine. 

Grandmother's Flower Garden and Drunkard's Path variation and lattice

Another Drunkard's Path variation and Dutchman's Puzzle

Wild Goose Chase and Ohio Star variation

School House and 6" Sawtooth Stars

Borders were sewn together and added to the blocks.

Grandmother's Flower Garden variation, borders and binding

The back of the quilt had to be stitched by hand around every block and border.  The lattice and borders were then quilted by machine.
This was a lot of work and it was the last quilt I made using this method.

This was also the first quilt where I started keeping track of how many times fabric was used in the making of the blocks. I learned that each fabric should be used equally to have a more unified look and so started experimenting with that in my next sampler “Red, White and Blue Sampler”.

keeping track

This worked well but I came up with the idea that using the same background fabric in all the blocks and also one specific fabric in all the blocks would really make a sampler all come together and get rid of the hodgepodge look that makes a lot of people “dislike” samplers.

That is my “recipe” when teaching sampler classes and it works like a charm.

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Grey and Red Sampler

Description: 25 sampler blocks set with lattice

Pattern: Traditional Sampler

Size: 94” x 94”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: grey, red and navy

Construction Techniques: 12” traditional blocks using different techniques, pieced and/or applique.

Back: 100% cotton paisley print

Batting: polyester

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine, hand quilting on some blocks 

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: no

Label: no

Date completed: ??? late nineties

Maker: Terry Whyte