Wednesday, December 30, 2009



It dawned on me last night after posting the butterfly blocks that a lot of people may not even know where this idea came from. The Piecemakers in Costa Mesa, Calif. publish a calender every year and sometimes it is a crazy quilt and other times a regular quilt. When you buy the calender a complete booklet comes with it showing the embellishments they used and the correct sizes to cut for sashings, etc. I liked the look of the layout mainly and decided to do my version of it. I have reduced the size of the blocks so it will be more of a wallhanging of a useable size for me.

I have been doing my own thing as far as the shapes in the blocks and the embellishments I put on them. I am thinking of just using beads on the four triangles that cover the middle triangle with the large butterfly. I will put one there but how it will be made I haven't got into that yet. Just thought curious minds might like to know.

The above picture insists on coming up sideways even though on the screen it looks right. I give up trying to change it. I took 2 more today and will add them and hope I can get one pic you can see. Well added 2 more but only 1 printed but it is better then its companion going sideways still.

Happy New Year to all who visit my blog, family and friends. Hugs FredaB

3 comments:

Maggi said...

Now that is the sort of calendar worth having. Thank you for sharing the source with us.

Debra Dixon said...

Either layout is really very modern and attractive-depending upon your wallspace. I really love this piece.

Carol in Clermont said...

Your piecmakers work is looking beautiful, Freda. And so is your rose and can't forget Harv's fish!!