Drunkards Path.....Top Done

After 15 years of sitting in a drawer...

 the Drunkards Path Quilt Top is DONE !

This week I completed all of the

Improv X Blocks 

for the border treatment...

It measures 80 x 80 inches

Now I need to paw through the fabric

cupboards and find something

that will work for a backing...

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LuAnn Kessi 

Drunkards Path...X Blocks

Playing around with some

Improv X Blocks... 

I am trying find a border treatment

that will compliment this

Drunkards Path quilt top...

So much color on the work table...

I have arranged the drunkards path blocks

in circles...

The X Blocks add straight lines

to offset all of those circles...

The more I make...

the better I like it.

I need more!

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Drunkards Path...Border

 

At this point, the blocks are all

pieced together into circles...

I do love the cirles...

I think the border treatment needs some

straight lines.

I started playing around with some

improv X blocks...

The X blocks are super FUN to make...

The X blocks play together well

with all of those circles...

In between trips to the hay fields,

I will come home and make a block or two

for the borders.

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Drunkards Path Quilt Blocks...

 

More than 15 years ago

I pieced a pile of Drunkards Path blocks

I pulled out my batik fabrics and had FUN

curved piecing...

I have to say, I have never been fond

of Drunkards Path quilts...

The layout and design of the

Drunkards Path puts me on edge...

so the blocks have been sitting in a drawer.

While I was searching for something else

in the Thread Shed I found the blocks...

I started playing around with them...

The full circle makes me happy !

Circles have always made me happy...

I like the way the circle really

jumps out at you...

So BOLD !

So I made a pile of circle blocks...

16 inch Blocks

Up on the Design Wall...

not sewn together just yet.

First row stitched together...

Two rows together...

All 16 blocks stitched together...

15 Years and the Quilt Blocks

are finally stitched into a quilt top...

How FUN is this !

I am not sure about a border treatment?

I am liking the yellow fabric...

We are all done branding calves and getting

the cow and calf pairs out onto

summer pasture with the bulls.

I am working in the flower beds now

battling the weeds, mulching, fertilizing

and watching the flower seeds sprout.

The Cowboy is busy getting the hay equipment

out of storage and ready to rock 'n roll

in the hay fields very soon!

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LuAnn Kessi 

Wild Goose Chase.....Top Done

I spent some time in the Thread Shed

yesterday piecing the last 2 seams 

of the Wild Goose Chase quilt top:

 

2 Seams left to piece together...

1 seam left to piece together...

Giving it a final pressing...

I took it outdoors for a photo shoot...

I put it back on the design wall

and noticed that the very last flying goose

on the bottom right corner...

is upside down.

Time to get out the seam ripper !

Wild Goose Chase 56 x 66

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Improv....Wild Goose Chase.....Progress

This is what the improv piece looked 

like a week ago on the design wall: 

I have continued to add more flying geese units

around the outside edges...

I am slowly filling in all the gaps...

I started to piece the top together...

it is like a puzzle putting all of these units 

together of all varied sizes.

There are so many seams,

the quilt is shrinking in all directions

as I piece it together...

It is becoming one cohesive unit...

I am in the process of adding a new row 

to the right side...

then I can piece all of the vertical rows together.

More to Come...

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