Wenselydale Flimsy!

Slow and steady, according to the old Aesop's Fable, and sure enough, slowly and steadily I have managed to put all the pieces together for Wensleydale. What a beauty she is!

The progress on this quilt has had some pauses of the planned variety. The foundation-pieced blocks were completed last spring and summer. I intentionally put them aside to be sewn together while in Florida. Following through on that plan in the first month! Yay!

Some of my very early work on the blocks.

Each new block instantly became my favorite!

So, the stack of blocks traveled down I-75, and here we are on Moonrise Lane. I went straight to work on the Layer Cake quilt for our coming granddaughter (arrival in April!), then I put Wensleydale on my radar.

I laid the blocks out on the bed and found a pleasing arrangement with very little fussing. Originally, I planned to sew the blocks together with the papers still attached to the back, and I did with the first and second rows. (I was strip sewing in Eleanor Burns' style.) 

It became evident that I would never be able to sew that whole quilt with the papers on, so I took a couple of days to remove all the papers while managing to keep all the blocks in their proper places. What a messy job! I had paper scraps everywhere. (And no photo evidence, but trust me on this!)

Then back to stitching. In the course of the last few days, it all came together. I pinned rather carefully at all the triangle points. Most matched just fine; a few are a bit off, but not so egregious that I am going to re-do them! I can handle a missed point here and there. 

 

 

The Tilda fabrics do all the work in this quilt. There's not a single block that I find objectionable. The eye is happy wherever it lands. 

The quilt contains 60 blocks, is 6 blocks x 10 blocks, and measures 77" x 66". I have given a bit of thought to how I will quilt it, but have not decided on a backing or binding, so those are some considerations I must work out. None of that will happen in the next 2-3 months, so I have time for those details. Somehow these things always find a way of coming together.

What next? I have two very important hand applique WIPs to work on, and I have additional new baby things, as well. Stay tuned to see what direction I take. 

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Jayne