Cathy has challenged us to warm up the gallery today. I just love making and looking at quilt cards. Usually I make baby quilt cards, but today I thought a supportive or sympathy quilt card would be nice. I started off by Googling quilt squares and came up with this design that I liked. I picked out three different DPs. This is actually Christmas paper that I got from Michael's for 75% off after Christmas clearance.
I punched out all the squares I needed and cut them each into triangles. Then I took the gray base and applied tape runner to the whole thing and assembled like a puzzle. Finished by running through a honeycomb EF and stitched the outside edge on my sewing maching. I had my stitch length set to about 3 and my zigzag to 4. I think I could have used a shorter stitch length here.
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017 GMT Views: 1361
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Registered: April 9, 2010 Location: Arizona Posts: 714
Thu, Jan 19, 2017 @ 6:16 AM
I love your quilt square card. This is a great design and your sentiment is a perfect match to let someone know that you care. Great color combination.
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105275
Thu, Jan 19, 2017 @ 6:43 AM
How nice as a change of idea...........sympathy cards are so hard to make. You hit the bull's eye with this one, Jen!!!
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Registered: March 5, 2007 Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania Posts: 44981
Thu, Jan 19, 2017 @ 7:43 AM
This is really pretty! Love the patchwork quilt! The sentiment is just perfect!
------------------------------ Lesley Proud Fan Club and RAK Member He is the GOD of the Impossible!!!! Kookzi the Rookzie Punchkateer It is by the grace of God that we take our next breath.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132007
Thu, Jan 19, 2017 @ 11:18 AM
Wow, that was a lot of work to piece all that together, and it's only as I look again that I realise it's all triangles! Great work, with a warm message of support to match.