Court Jester Laughing

 

When I'm deep into a quilt I'm having fun with not much can tear me away. Yesterday I didn't even bother to get dressed before I went into the studio and started sewing the blocks into pinwheels and the pinwheels into rows. 

Since the design wall would allow me to display only 14 blocks across (and I needed 15) I couldn't add the extra one on the left (to make the quilt 60" wide) until I had sewn the rest of the row together. So the eagle-eyed amongst you will see that the four rows of pinwheels (above) have one more block in those rows than the rows below, which have not yet been sewn together.

In the photo above the 12  rows of blocks have been sewn into pinwheels, and those into rows, but I haven't yet sewn the rows to each other. I'm busy with other things today and tomorrow so I won't get more done on this until Friday. 

Nancy from Philadelphia made my day in the comments yesterday when she said she coveted my stash of black on white fabrics. That made me count. There are over 40 unique black on white fabrics in this quilt. I've had some of these fabrics over fifteen years.

Every piece of fabric in this quilt came from stash or from the scrap bins, so that's a win.

My friend Susan wants me to write a tutorial for this, and I can't really see the point, it's so damn simple. (I can already hear my long arm quilter, Janet-Lee Santeusanio saying "NO LYNNE, this is NOT simple!") But really, while juggling this many black on white prints, especially with prints of varying scales and density of black can be tricky, this quilt could just as easily be made with blander backgrounds of off white or a collection of small prints on white. 

If. you want more details, let me know in the comments.

See you on Saturday or Sunday!