Someone reached out to me not to long ago asking if I could make a shirt quilt for them. After meeting up I found out the story behind the shirts.
She was raised by her grandfather and these were his short sleeve button downs that he wore every single day.
After seeing all of the shirts I thought a good way of using all of the plaids would be to to create a hybrid version of Denyse Schmidt’s Hop, Skip and Jump design from her book. I actually made this very quilt design as one of my first few quilts.
To make my life easier I made myself a set of acrylic templates. So I started cutting! And cutting and cutting some more. Each block has 8 curved rectangles, alternating between the shirts and the neutral backgrounds.
After a day or so I had enough of the blocks pieces that I took them all downstairs and placed them on the floor to check layout. Once they were shuffled around a bit I started to join my rows and then add all of the rows together.
This morning I took the finished top and and backing to my friend Cathy who always fits me into her busy longarm schedule. I wanted her to have it while I was away this week in Myrtle Beach.
I’ll pick it up on Friday and get the binding on. I sent a picture to the my client the other day and she said it made her so happy to see it and that she can’t wait to sit under it and have a good cry. See, Happy and Sad!
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I bought Modern Quilting and tried to make Not a Celtic Knot quilt but the instructions are wrong. Have you got a corrected plan?
Hi Judi.
I have dozens of people make it and it was even made on a tv show.
What’s the problem?
Well for one thing, the cutting instructions are wrong but I figured it out. Now I can’t lay it out. Any suggestions?
I’ll bring it up with the publisher as they did that part.
Has there been any reply from the Publisher as yet? It would be nice to be able to make this pattern. Thank you.
I am trying to make the Not a Celtic Knot Quilt pattern as well and am having difficulty. On Pg 84, Step 1 instructions for half square triangles do not seem to be correct. “You’ll need seven brown and light blue…” In the cutting instructions there are NO brown squares to be cut! Brown are only rectangles. Brown and cream squares are also needed per the instructions. Please advise. Thank you.
Please reread my question. I thought I was clear. I also have no idea how to piece this thing.
I’m not having any luck here. Are you?
looks like what they have done is label the dark orange as a brown. If you sub the brown with orange it works fine. send me your email and I can send you the pdf I have made with the blocks framed in black outlines.
quilter917@yahoo.com. Thank you very much for sorting this out, Michael! Really appreciate this.
My email address is jamck400@att.net thanks