If you want to find out if you are addicted to blogging check out Ankes Garten this is a German quilters site and take the test and check out her blog while you are there. I scored a 62% so I guess that means I am more than half way addicted! Anke’s site is in German most of the time but if you use the google translator you can read it just fine. I find it interesting reading some of the blogs of the quilters in other countries. Sometimes the quilts are really quite different. For instance the quilters in the Scandinavian countries tend to lean more towards folk art and the European more towards art quilts. It is different everywhere of course but that is what I have noticed. The Australian folks seem to be a lot like the Americans and vary widely and do not go so much by region.
Today I spent a bit of time working on my part of a raffle quilt for local guild. I have one more border to stitch together and then my part will be complete. Glad to be able to hand that off next week. I want to get back to my own things. I did get one “Insanity Revisited” (I think it was F-5 if I remember right) block cut out today but I have not sewed it – maybe later. I also spent time while the news was on quilting on the quilt with the miniature double wedding ring in it. It is coming along really nicely but I have not spent near enough time on it. I am a slow hand quilter in that I am always working on 3 or 4 projects at one time. I would get each project done much faster if I stuck to one at a time but where would the fun be in that.
The mug for today is this large colorful mug. The artist that did both of the mugs with the cat handles – blue and white, that I posted last week did this one also. I found this at an arts and craft show about 10 years or so ago I guess. I haven’t kept track. I rarely used it to drink from because it is so large, it is another one that could hold 24 oz. or so — more than I normally use at one sitting.
Yesterdays question was Equilateral triangles can be cut from long strips of fabric. Which method do you use to determine how much seam allowance to add to fabric strips? The answer was C – determine the triangles finished height from its base to its tip and add 3/4″.
Question: To calculate the finished diagonal width (one corner to another diagonally) of a square quilt block, multiply the finished length of a straight side by:
A- 1.25
B – 1.41
C – 1.61
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