I Want to remake the Test Pattern #49 Quilt!
Redo Something?
Not this lady! I will not redo a quilt - as tear it apart and resew the seams. I have no desire to do that as I can always give away something that I don’t really like. Someone will like it - and maybe even love it.
However, I may remake the pattern and improve something - as in “do it again”.
I have no problem with that. In fact, often something I do sort of prompts me to try something just a bit different and maybe, at least to my own eyes, a bit better.
This is what I’ve been dwelling on for YEARS now. Yes. I have.
I do know I want to make another one of these - but this time make the design go to the edge. I have been putting aside yellows when it has been time to trim up - so I could use them instead of trimming them into 2.5” strips. This pattern calls for a larger piece than 2.5” so I need to kind of capture the yellow before I cut them up - from my “to be trimmed up” piles. Obviously I could pull from stash as well. I think I did that before.
Whenever I think about this quilt I wish I had made the design all the way out to the edges instead of using gray side setting triangles.
This is what that will look like.
So that will be my involved quilt top for the summer, even though when you break it down, it isn’t that bad. Not really. I think I didn’t finish it this way before simply because I was tired. I was tired of making blocks. And I regret that and I’m going to back and rectify the situation.
I made this large quilt as part of a three-part series using the same basic main block -
Here are the three quilts I made. I will circle the main block in each quilt so you can easily see.
Those three quilts are some of my favorites from the series, but I know that finishing up Test Pattern #49 like I wish I had done back then, it will rise surely from a nice quilt to a wonderful one!
I also thought I would make this quilt this summer in stages - and let you see as I go along - simply because it’s not a new quilt to me and not as exciting. However, if I can share it with you as I work on the various blocks, I will do it. Otherwise, I might just keep talking myself out of doing it and years could go by and I’d never do it. And I really do want to do it.
Anyway - I’m going to start with the 9 patches - using 2” strips. So here I go. I will need this small block in these variations. I will use low volume - very low volume - as the whites.
I have to make them with the shading (light gray) as indicated.
I could either piece the single 2” cut squares or make a longer strip. I made it with strips (making slightly more work) because I already had strips cut and I could put a bigger variety of designs in each block.
So here goes - using 2” strips I end up with 5” squares at this point. I will need 25 of the blocks for the center part of the quilt. Then I will need some that I will cut for the side and corner setting triangles. This time, however, I will probably just make partial blocks. We’ll see.
First, to make the 25 blocks.
I will need 25 9 patches with dark in the corners and white elsewhere and 50 9 patches with gray shading as shown above.
Then I will need 50 9 patches with the special coloration shown above on the right.
Here is what I’ve done so far.
Really - I’ve been working on something else, so what I made myself do is go and pick out some of the dark 2” strips and the very light ones as well. I actually have a couple of bags of them up here close by my computer and one in my sewing room - so finding them wasn’t too hard. I’ll start making the blocks in between other projects.
This may be so slow - that it will be tiny little steps.
I’m going to take this one “step by step”. Once again - I have been wanting to do this for so long I’m having a hard time believing I’m actually going to take steps to do it. I’ll be working off this layout. There is a lot of detail in this design, so it will take a while.
I’m not going to even attempt to do it in 2-3 days. My motto with this one will be to “do the next step” - and even if I make only tiny steps, I will consider that I’m going in the right direction.
I’m adding this little addition on July 4, and since it is a holiday in the USA, I don’t feel like working too much longer on this blog post. :) I will start sewing the center 9 patches for this - tomorrow. (Lord willing)
Thanks so much for coming on this journey with me.
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