I saw a post on Pinterest for a quilt made from these blocks and loved it! I’d really like to do it in a mustard yellow (like shown) but had this big thing of blue sitting around, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. It’s been fun working on one a day. They go pretty fast, and now that I’ve done a few I don’t need to look at the pattern. The full blanket calls for 80, so I figure if I can just get one a day done, I should have an afghan in about 3 months (because of course there will be days I miss). Although, this yarn is cheap yarn and I kind of want to do it out of a nicer yarn. So I may be abandoning this yarn and going for another soon.
Thanks so much for the enthusiastic response to the Retro Flowers quilt! I was so nervous about this one, but you all had such positive things to say. I am looking forward to seeing some more of these quilts pop-up around Flickr/Blogs. I’ve been busy over here working on canning, quilting and other small projects so I have been awful about responding to comments, but please know that everyone’s comments make a world of difference and I hope to get to email soon.
Liz wanted me to be sure and say that she pieced her flower block without a Curve Master foot. She did find that the use of spray starch (as the pattern suggests) helped immensely in matching up her curves. Although, Amanda, who also tested the pattern, found that she had no trouble without spray starch. Amanda did not use a Curve Master foot either, and it went just fine for her. So don’t be worried if you don’t have one, but still want to make the quilt, it’s definitely not required, it just made the job go by a little faster.
Bernina Owners: If you do buy one, and have a new style Bernina, you just need the (unnumbered) shank that comes with the #1 foot on it. This was a standard foot on my (very basic) machine, so I would assume most of the Bernina’s come with it. The Curve Master foot just snapped right in, no problem. So if you have that shank, don’t worry about buying the extra adapter, just be sure to get the foot that will work with a Bernina (and a 1/4” foot for this pattern). …although I just went and checked my packaging and it did come with a shank adapter, but it’s plastic so not sure how long that would really last. Here is a low priced one on Amazon.
9 comments:
I'm doing that same blanket for my baby-to-be. :-) In white. It is a remarkably fast crochet project. And even sewing the blocks together (usually my least favorite part) is going swimmingly. I'm only making 64 squares, and I've done... 25? It makes such a pretty blanket (I've already sewn some of them together).
With all my spare time (ha!) I'm contemplating taking up crocheting a bit again too. Or knitting. And woohoo, Christina, I'm taking an online photography class and learning something. Now maybe I won't be bugging you all the time!
And I love my pattern for Retro Flowers!
i NEED to learn how to crochet! looks beautiful! and congrats on your pattern doing so well, I really honestly need to make one soon, maybe with some KJR fabric?!
what a lovely pattern! I can't wait to see the finished quilt!!!
Would you be willing to share the pattern for the little block? or did I miss that connection somewhere? thank you!
I hope to learn to crochet one day! My twin sis does crochet and some minimal knitting, and I am the sewer, lol. This pattern is so beautiful!
I need to push her to finish her granny square project. :D
I am making this blanket as well! The squares are addictive and simple "TV crafting" for me.
So glad to have found your blog! I will be a regular reader!
this is such a cool crochet square...i had to print it out right away and put it on the pile of things to make. crochet seems to be my way of passing time while my machine is being repaired.
This is really nice, liking the idea of making it as a baby blanket as another commenter said.
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