President's Houses II

Quilt Documentation # 140

This is the second in a series of four quilts made from blocks received from members of the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild when I retired as president of the guild in 2000.

President's Houses II

 Yesterday I blogged about this quilt, President's Houses I, here.

President's Houses I

President's Houses II is made up of twelve 12” x 12” blocks. Since blocks made by different individuals do not always measure exactly what it should, I decided to add a skinny border of some of my own hand dyed fabric to each block. That way I could make each block the same size by adjusting the border widths.

detail

I then added wedges in different black and white prints around each block.

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The next row of wedges were all checks or plaids arranged to form a long skinny star shapes in between the blocks and around the edges of the quilt.

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Instead of a binding, I used the pillowcase method for turning the quilt inside out before doing the quilting. It was a little tricky with all the points, but do-able.

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hand embroidered detail

I quilted each block with a different free motion design. 

President's Houses II - back

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

Happy quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: President's Houses II

Description: House Sampler

Pattern: Original

Size: 50” x 66”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Multi colours

Construction Techniques: 12 “House” blocks set with wedges

Back: Hand dyed muslin

Batting: Polyester

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label:

Date completed:2002

Inspiration: Blocks received from members when retiring as president of guild

Quilt History: Display at the 2002 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History

Maker: Terry Whyte