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France Nadeau - Central Braids

Those are my four central braids. They combine fabrics from my first two blocks: the Log Cabins and the Curved Log Cabins. I have used old clothes and leftovers from past projects (mainly clothes I have sewn).

I am currently working on the stars. I find that piecing them require some work, but the result is worth it. I should be able to show them soon. Thanks to Deana, I am making blocks that I have never sewn before.

France

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MARIE'S SHIMMER BRAID

My goal was to finish this quilt top by the end of June and I finished it last night.  Thanks Deana for a wonderful pattern and a fun quilt to make. 

Finished Shimmer Braid QAL

I truly enjoyed sewing this up.  Now it is ready to quilt, along with many others that are ready. 

My Shimmering Sunset

I finished!!! Maybe. I'm still deciding if I want to add some borders.
I did do my inner blocks a little different. I was trying to stay with the theme.
So here's the 4th months.

 

And the whole thing.

 Thank you so much Deana! your pattern is just so beautiful!!!

I'm going to make another in different colors soon.

MARIE: MONTH FOUR BLOCKS COMPLETE

I finished these fun blocks and am ready and excited to put the quilt top together.  Thank you Deana for a wonderful pattern. This has been is a fun project and will be a beautiful quilt.

Month 4 finished!

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Looking forward to putting it all together.  I Love it.  It is amazing that only 4 months of piecing can produce a queen size quilt.  

France Nadeau - My Curved Log Cabin

I was finally able to finish my twenty curved log cabins. I worked with scraps and recycled fabric, which means I could not follow the tutorial written for fat quarters. That would have been so much easier! But they are done. I am glad. I like them. I have prepared a picture explaining the different fabrics I have used:

You can see just below how my curved log cabins look next to the log cabins I have previously made:

France

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Next Tutorial!

For those of you looking for the next tutorial of the Shimmer Braid quilt, it released late - but is available now at this link.

Thanks for your patience!

Deana

MARIE: BRAIDS FINISHED

I finished my braids tonight, just in time to get the next set of instructions tomorrow.  I am loving this quilt!  Thanks Deana.

French Braids

French Braids completed.  This in  only my second time of sewing French braids.  So fun.  I little more time consuming but they are worth it.  The corners fit so nice.  It looks distorted from the angle that I took the picture but you get the idea.  Now on to sew the garden row BOM together. 

Judi's Shimmer Braid

Got my shimmer fabrics last week Monday and couldn't wait to get started.
So this is my first months blocks.

Then the second months blocks.

Add them together and you get.

I did have other shimmer fabrics that I added to these blocks. And I kind of painted a couple of fabrics with gold paint myself for the colors I wanted. I'll be touching these up some. So the braids are done and it all lays out like this.

I am soooo loving this design. I think of it as a shimmering sunset. I can hardly wait for next month, its marked on my calendar!!!

Thanks Deana!!

Cathy - Curved Log Cabin Completed

Well, it took a few days (I'm a pinner) but I finally finished up all 20 of the curved log cabin blocks.

 

I loved the look of them so much, I just had to pull out the log cabin blocks and lay them out to get a feel for how they're going to took in the quilt...

 

Just gorgeous!!!  Thanks Deana for such a fun pattern and beautiful quilt.  :)

MARIE: Part 2 Complete

I have completed 20 curved log cabins.  This is a fun quilt!

20 Curved Log Cabin Blocks

Here are my 20 curved log cabin blocks.  So fun! 

France - My Log Cabins

Hello everyone!

My name is France Nadeau and I signed up for making this gorgeous quilt by Deana. The following is taken from the post I have published on my blog.

The four following images are pictures of the four versions for the log cabins that were to be sewn in month 1. It took me some time to make the sixteen featured here. I did not used fat quarters as suggested by Deana, but scraps and old clothes. I have wanted to mix those fabrics together for some time and I thought that the Shimmer Braid quilt was the perfect occasion. When I look at Deana's pattern, I see an English kitchen herb garden. Not what she had in mind. But the image is engraved in mine.

The pink fabric is silk that wrinkles as soon as I touch it. So, please, disregard the obvious wrinkles. I made four blocks of each version. Not following the cutting and sewing instructions of the pattern meant I could not make the blocks as fast as possible. In the end, I cut every single piece separately and then sew them together. 

I have also used polyester. The brown squares are made of a polyester embroidered with brown thread. The white and light beige fabrics are polyester looking like linen. The beige/brown/orange is a "wrinkled" polyester (I am not sure how to call it...).

Because I used all those fabrics with different textures, the result is a block not lying perfectly flat. Not good for taking pictures, let me tell you. Looking at my pictures, it seems that none of the lines are straight. (I assure you they look better in real. You will have to take my word on that. ;-) ) But they will make, I think, a striking top. And when quilted, everything will stay in place.

France

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Cathy - Part 1 Done!

I wanted to wait to post this until I could get to work and take a good picture! :)  Finished these up Friday night.  There are four in each stack so I'm done with the first month!

 

I had a ton of fun with these.  Thanks Deana!!

 

MARIE: Month 1 Complete

I have completed my log cabin blocks for Month 1.  These blocks are so much fun to make--when you get the seam allowance right.  I'm looking forward to Month 2.

Cathy - Finally Started!

It's been a pretty busy week, but I finally got started on my blocks for the first month of Shimmer Braid last night.  Here's a glimpse of where my quilt is going...

 

I really love the color play and can't wait to see the rest of it come together.  Thanks Deana!!

 

Shimmer Braid top taking shape

I wanted the group to see the quilt as it is taking shape with real fabrics instead of a diagram.  My Saturday at the sewing machine resulted in a near finished top.  Shimmer Braid is well on its way and so much fun to make.  

My design wall is not quite large enough to put the last few rows on, and FYI, the rows are not all sewn together yet.