{"id":153,"date":"2012-03-23T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-08-14T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:54:45","slug":"lucky-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/lucky-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirteen years ago, I embarked on a \u2018Labor of Love\u2019 as it were.<\/p>\n

As the story goes, in 1998, I wanted to make a nifty Holiday quilt, but I wanted some practice first. So I planned a quilt-a-month project for 1999 to get warmed up. My Heart Quilt was only the second quilt on the list. [Insert heavy sigh here] It was a great start, sewing and piecing the hearts together that February. Unfortunately, the corner blocks stumped me and nothing I tried looked right. I shelved the project momentarily, but between travel, distractions and moving to another house, the better part of the decade zipped by with little more than a passing glance in 2003 & 2005 as I still had no better idea about how to finish those corners.<\/p>\n

Then, I started going to March & September quilting retreats in 2009 and soaking up the knowledge and inspiration of my quilting collective. After my \u2018Tie-land hiatus,\u2019 I worked out the corner quandary and was emboldened in the home stretch to declare a brilliant decision to use Prairie Points around the border.<\/p>\n

\"Heart<\/a>Ah, but I\u2019ve gotten ahead of myself as I need to fill another 12″-16″ of border. The squares-on-point border is a perfect complement and although my triangles get a little wonky, it works. I\u2019m still a tad short at the head & foot and adding an extra-wide burgundy border just seems too simplistic. Perhaps more shaded 4-patch blocks along the bottom, which fittingly look like a string of hearts when set on point surrounded by all that burgundy fabric.<\/p>\n

So after a handful of dedicated weekends working through various design dilemmas over the past 3 years, I\u2019m finally finished piecing. Lest I rest on my laurels too long, the binding incorporating Prairie Points is just beginning. What\u2019s a Prairie Point you ask? It\u2019s a square of fabric folded diagonally twice into a triangle. I hope to find a quick way to attach & finish them so I can start hand quilting, but you know easy isn’t my modus operandi \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

With all the detours, it has been quite an amazing journey; and seeing everything fall into place now is priceless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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