Daredevils Border

Daredevils by Becky Brown

45" x 60"

No border

Dorry Emmer finished her top 48 hours ago.

But you might want a border

If you have pieced the dots into the corners (true Daredevils!) you will want to piece the border.

Me and EQ figured it out. My drawings aren't perfect-- I couldn't get my curves quite right in the sketch; they work in the pattern.

Ellen Frenkel's design wall.

It has been much fun watching her progress on our

Facebook group. She is appliqueing clouds on each

block with a portrait of the flying daredevil on each.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/636608750083652/

I graphed a border that finishes to 3-3/4" 

(15" blocks divided into quarters = 3-3/4")

You need 28 quarter circle blocks finishing to 3-3/4". These will match up with the quarter circles in the corners of your blocks.

I erased the lines in the plain border squares and made them rectangles finishing to 3-3/4" x 7-1/2".

Cut 14 rectangles 4-1/4" x 8"

Print this out 8-12" x 11"

If you've appliqued dots like Denniele Bohannon has

you can continue doing so.

Cut border strips 4-1/4" wide.

Cut 2 strips 53" long for the top and bottom.

Cut 2 strips 60-1/2" long for the sides.

Stitch these to the quilt.

Applique dots: 14 dots covering block corners and into borders.

See more here
https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2019/07/daredevils-quilt-along.html

Barbara Burnham's basted beauty

"Got the circles prepped, now to sew the seams together and applique the circles. Don't wait for me, 'cause I'm sewing everything by hand!," says she.

Virtual Booth - Quilt Market 2019 Houston

Here's the sketch for my virtual booth this year, kind of dreamy,

kind of classical.

All imaginary.

Especially since I have nothing new to sell.

But wait till Spring!

Two books!

Dot loves Quilt Market.

It's a good thing there are no other dogs there; she'd growl.

Formidable Women: Liza MacKinnon

Ada Lovelace

The talk of Lawrence, Kansas lately has been Liza MacKinnon's sculpture show at the Percolator Gallery. Too bad---but it's over.

Liza, a librarian, makes paper dresses to recall formidable historical figures. Mathematician Ada Lovelace's dress (about 3 feet tall) is made from pages of her biography and decorated with flowers fashioned from computer punch cards. The repeat pattern is zeroes and ones---all the numbers you need.

Detail of Marie Antoinette's dress with trim of currency. Most of the dress, about 2-1/2 feet tall

is tax forms.

She's also made smaller pieces; this one's about a foot tall.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's dress is painted pages

from her book Frankenstein. Details include black cross stitches

in the skirt to represent the creature.

Susan Wolfe's photo of Mary Todd Lincoln's dress

Marie Curie with a little radium glow through

x-ray film

Lawrence's own Lucy Hobbs Taylor

Friend Kathy bought the Duchess of Pembroke's Elizabethan dress.

Liza's webpage:

https://www.mackomics.com/sculpture

Her Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/liza.mackinnon/?hl=en

Daredevils Block #12: Evelyn's Star

Daredevils Block #12: Evelyn's Star

Scroll down for the 15" pattern.

Becky Brown's #12

Dorry Emmer's Block #12

They followed the pattern!

The last block in our series was modified from a Kansas City Star design, published in 1936.

It's an odd number in BlockBase

# T013

Which means I didn't have it in my paper Encyclopedia.

 Denniele Bohannon's block #12 Evelyn's Star,

waiting for the corner circles to be appliqued.

The Block

Daredevils pattern for a 15" block.

Cut paper templates. Add seams to the fabric.

How to print:

Create a word file or a new empty JPG file that is 8-1/2" x 11".

Click on the image above.

Right click on it and save it to your file.

Print that file out 8-1/2" x 11". The small square should measure 1"

Adjust the printed page size if necessary.

Becky Brown's beautiful Daredevils

Next Week the border.

Evelyn Sharp
https://www.ninety-nines.org/sharpie-life-of-evelyn-sharp.htm

I should have said: This is the last block in the Daredevils Quilt Along.

Next week Borders.

Can't wait to see some finished quilts!

AQSG 40th Anniversary Seminar

Cindy Rennels and her domain at the quilt merchants' area.

Really old quilt behind her. The triangles at the bottom are a deep fringe.

1800-1825?

Spent several days in quilt heaven at the American Quilt Study Group's annual seminar, this year in Lincoln Nebraska. I saw a lot and heard a lot. It was a great experience and I have enough blog content to last till Christmas.

But you want to see quilts. So here's a selection of some I saw, with credits if I can figure it out.

Fuzzy picture of hexagonal pineapple quilt. Note my

finger there for scale. I have one of these pineapples but certainly

not this small.

This one had no backing which allowed us to see the fabric foundations.

Memory also fuzzy---which dealer?

Chintz cut outs at Mary Koval's booth.

Prussian blue & buff stripes in a center diamond

Square in a square (Economy block) from

the Triplett sisters booth. Made by Sarah Elizabeth Brady Engel of

Baltimore.

Comes with a lot of documentation.

Mystery pattern from Xenia Cord's inventory. I drew in a white

line to show you that the blue dotted print are 5-sided pieces.

Not a block. Hard to put together.

Chintz from Xenia's booth

Great late-19th-c stripe from Mary Koval's stack of fabrics and parts.

Underneath: an early embroidered piece.

Maybe Jane Lury's booth?

The applique on the wall British.

It says FOOT on the bottom.

Humans and birds and other free form-applique. I always love the way

these free-form appliques ignore the block concept.

Saw a similar quilt at the International Quilt Museum galleries,

a recent acquisition. Family said it was made in Wisconsin but I doubt it.

Another new IQM acquisition. 1840s, taste changing --- chintz or calico?

How about both?

Looked through mail-order fabric sources at the Quilt Research Center

in the University of Nebraska libraries. Like this description of the flapper stockings---

"Pure silk and fiber", late 1920s.

Archivist Mary Ellen Ducey showing us the storage area

for the Quilt Research Center at the University of Nebraska Libraries.

More later.