One Year! Whew!

This one is Elaine's quilt. It is a bit more vivid in person...especially the deep red row. We are going to go shopping next week for new triangle material. Deep red. It wasn't until we put it up on the wall that we noticed how gray the triangles were and how it would look better with deep red triangles. Oh well, we only made three triangles and we love to shop for fabric!

This one is mine. I think I really like it. I hate making the triangles! They are mostly paper-pieced and I am not very good at that at all! It takes all my concentration to sew them!

Hmmm...we should have pushed a little harder for our first year! hahahaha If we would have made 42 blocks it would have been a quarter of them. We didn't plan that very well. Then we would have had to make 13 traingles and we certainly didn't want to do that. There is a reason they come later...it's called a learning curve!

Next update will probably be at the six month mark. :)

Finally an update

We took these pictures clear back in November of last year. I think we had good intentions of posting them but they never made it to the blog. Notice that I still have to finish my applique on a few of the blocks. (They are all finished now!)


We have made a lot (hahaha) more blocks now and put together a storage system for them until we sew the top together sometime in the next 10 years. We have also made two of the triangles now. We will have to take a new picture of our 25 blocks finished!

A Few Of Our First Blocks

Here are our first blocks we made. Elaine's are in the top corner and mine are the bottom left. They are only 5 inch squares to this point. When we sew them together they will be 4 1/2 inches square. We think they are really cute! We are both using quite different fabric. Elaine's is more "Thimbleberries/Civil War Era" and mine is closer to the "Cottage/Shabby Chic" fabrics. It's still going to take us quite a bit of time to get this done. We are hoping to complete it before we die!!! hahaha