{"id":2017,"date":"2019-01-09T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:45:05","slug":"modern-fans-quilt-in-cotton-and-steel-qal-and-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Modern Fans Quilt in Cotton and Steel: QAL and Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, I am happy to share a fun quilt finish today. Back in September through the first weeks of November, Suzy Quilts<\/a> held a sewalong for her Modern Fans<\/a> quilt pattern. I have been sewing for close to 40 years and quilting for almost 30 years and I will admit sewing  curves and those pesky Y seams are something that I haven’t mastered. I jumped in fully to sewing curves with the Suzy Quilts sewalong and with Evie Jespersen of Evquilts<\/a> on Instagram as my inspiration and final push to try curve piecing.<\/p>\n

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This is my first finished Modern Fans made in Cotton and Steel prints leftover from my Tribal Plus<\/a> quilt.  As with many quilt patterns I have to make them mine, and I added a creative border to make it larger.<\/p>\n

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This is one of Suzy Quilts original Modern Fans <\/a>quilts that she shared on her QAL.<\/p>\n

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I started learning how to use Electric Quilt 8<\/a> software last fall and I uploaded the Modern Fans design into the program to decide how I wanted to place my fabrics since I had a limited amount left from my previous quilting project. I ended up becoming quite proficient at drawing the curves as I was having a trouble getting it to save in a fashion that I could pull it back up to work with. I designed another quilt while making this one and will blog about it later. That quilt I came up with 5 different layouts on how to use my fabrics so had LOTS of practice drawing curves with EQ8.<\/p>\n

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This is my fabric pull selection.<\/p>\n

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Here are all the block components all cut out and the striped  pie wedges pieced. Suzy provides paper templates you can print and cut out. I traced mine on to a clear vinyl cutting board sheet that comes in a package of 3 at the Dollar Tree for $1.00. I was able to carefully cut all my curves out with my 60 mm Olfa cutter. Suzy recommended the small 35 mm one for easy of control. I hope to have my husband cut me out a more permanent set of the matching templates from a sheet of plexiglass.<\/p>\n

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All my curved pie wedges sewn together and ready for assembling the top.<\/p>\n

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\nMy first row assembled and things are matching up well.<\/p>\n

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\n This is my completed Modern Fans flimsy without borders in the  original pattern size of 56 inches square. I wanted a larger top but did not have any extra of the Cotton and Steel fabrics to make more blocks. So I needed to come up with a creative border to enlarge the design and chose to continue the design outward by finishing the gray diamonds around the outside of the quilt.<\/p>\n

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This is a low light indoor shot of the completed quilt.<\/p>\n

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Here is Modern Fans in Cotton and Steel out on the back gate blowing in the wind.<\/p>\n

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Hopefully you can see how I chose to quilt this quilt in this photo.<\/p>\n

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Prebinding shot of all the quilting, well actually I added more quilting to the individual wedges in the larger circles after this photo.<\/p>\n

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The quiltalong was for 9 weeks  and at the end of the QAL if you had a least a throw top completed then you could be entered into a contest to win a new Bernina sewing machine. I had finished my top early as I needed to start on a commissioned quilt for Christmas delivery. I managed to get my commissioned quilt top pieced and started another Modern Fans that I would be gifting to a little cousin for his first birthday. I was down to finishing up sewing the last rows together of the second Modern Fans when the official deadline time to have photos posted passed. I sewed a row on upside down and had to take it apart. No problem. I will share the second quilt in another post.<\/p>\n

Thank you all for the kind words about my memory quilt project in the last blog post.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your continued support on reading my blog posts.<\/p>\n

Happy Sewing,<\/p>\n

Shelley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, I am happy to share a fun quilt finish today. Back in September through the first weeks of November, Suzy Quilts held a sewalong for her Modern Fans quilt pattern. I have been sewing for close to 40 years and quilting for almost 30 years and I will admit sewing  curves and those pesky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[172,170,171],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-quilts","category-quilty-love","tag-curvedpiecing","tag-modernfansquilt","tag-suzyquiltspatterns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NHdW-wx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecarpentersdaughterwhoquilts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}