Teaquilts: My Gypsy Wife Rendition

Sunday, February 28, 2016

My Gypsy Wife Rendition

On February 26, 2016 I began my journey with the Gypsy Wife quilt by Jen Kingwell. The quilt required the piecing of numerous blocks. I decided that since I have a lot of orphan blocks already pieced, that I would do one of the following: (1) cut larger blocks down/rip apart sections or (2) frame smaller blocks to make them fit the allocated spacing in the chart. That's why my version is a rendition of the original. My quilt will not have the blocks used in the original version by Jen.

I love making scrap quilts with random blocks placed throughout the quilt. I meant to start this journey in 2014 as a scrap club yearlong project but life got in the way of my following through. I recently saw new quilt alongs starting up in March so I thought I get my quilt going as well.

I cut numerous strips from my scrap stash in yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, and green. I decided to omit tans, browns, black and white unless it was already in a pieced block. I mostly omitted fabrics that read didn't read as a particular color.

As I began piecing the sections, I could feel the addiction growing stronger and stronger. It was fast becoming the only project that I wanted to work on. The addiction won and I made five sections within 24 hours and want to share them with you.

SECTION #1: I used 5 orphan blocks. Also, I am using the same fabric strip in the vertical construction of this quilt. It will become more obvious as I complete the sections.

SECTION #2: I used 6 orphan blocks.

SECTION 1 & 2 COMBINED:

SECTION 3: I used 4 orphan blocks.

SECTION 1-3:

SECTION 4: I used 2 orphan blocks

SECTION 1-4 COMBINED:

SECTION 5: I used 7 orphan blocks.

SECTION 1-5 COMBINED:

Although I wish I could work on this quilt further, I have to put it aside to work on uploading some of my recent finished projects, scrap quilting club show-n-tell, work of some yearlong projects, make binding for three quilts, and prepare a few income taxes for my family. I am sadden that I had to put Ms. Gypsy up for a little while. I'm hoping to be able to publish section 6 within a week otherwise I'll give an update in a blog post.

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