Design Wall Monday 5/9/11 -Siggie Done

Baby Alan has been very cooperative and wanted two long naps during the day, so I've made a lot of progress on the signature quilt due Saturday, May 14th.  I just have to finish the binding, bury the threads, and it is done.  I called it "God calls and His people hear in the books of Old". 

Why such an odd title?  This quilt is a thank you gift from the 60 students to our professor for an extension class entitled:  Introduction to the Old Testament.  It has been an excellent, excellent class.  We were very fortunate to have one of the nation's acknowledged eminent scholars of the Old Testament teach the class, Daniel Smith-Christopher (he has a wiki page!).  He has taught at LMU for 21 years.

I designed the quilt on EQ using the Jacob's Ladder block and a Roman Stripe block.  I needed lots of places for my fellow students to sign their names and their favorite Old Testament book.  The writing in the middle is Hebrew for Yahweh.  I quilted it in sections - a modified QAYG method that I will talk about in another post and will probably do again.  It's 51" square.  Do you think he'll like it?

Three Easy Secret Blocks

These were fun and went together easy - I may make quilts from these as they have fewer pieces per block -lol.  Block #7 is called " Chained star" by Sandy Harris of Sundrop Designs.  It would be great for fabric photos, focus fabric, etc.

Block #8 is called "Garden Spot" by Sherri Driver, associated editor of McCalls Quilting. 

Block #9 is another pieced block called "Kansas Fortune" by Deborah Johnson of In the Doghouse Designs. 

Again all of these were easy.  In my next post, I'll show #10 and announce the winner of the giveway.
Happy Mother's Day to all mothers reading this!

Block 6 Sort of, LOL

Here is secret block 6 - Star of Glory by Patty Clayton:

I'm sure you can guess that this was a paper pieced block.  And I say sort of because there are a total of 76 little pieces of fabric in the block, and in the short time line I had, I only could make 1 unit.  With the wonders of computer manipulation, here is what it will look like when the other 3 are done - LOL.  I can see this block in a quilt with lots of star blocks.

Giveaway still on - go to the May 2nd post and you'll see all the details on how to win an issue of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks, v. 3.