Glitter Begun

 

Several years ago someone I know became enamored with a quilt designer named Jen Kingwell and she began making quilts from Jen's patterns. They were all scrappy, which seems to be the designer's trademark. The quilts my acquaintance produced were beautifully made and so scrappy that -- to me -- they were chaotic. Can there be such a thing as too scrappy? Taste is very personal, and to me scrappy is wonderful if it is a controlled scrappy.

Anyway, I stayed away from Jen and her patterns. Until I saw a Steam Punk. The pattern was intriguing and Covid had struck the world and I had a lot of scraps and off I went. My Steam Punk was a controlled scrappy. Five months into the pandemic, Steam Punk was a flimsy and I'd discovered Halo! Again, Jen's model was too scrappy for my taste, and the "recipe" I developed yielded my first finished Halo well before the pandemic ended.

Since then, I've become a Kingwell aficionado, buying her books and independent patterns. I love hand-piecing her designs. Wensleydale was a total joy to make and more Halos and Steam Punks have been completed.

Now I've discovered Glitter.  My version isn't glittery at all; I may have to re-name. The first two of the needed 156 blocks are hand-pieced, finished, and pressed. There's a Y-seam (or four!) in each block, something I've not done before and they're a bit fiddly. I suspect that by the time Block #156 is finished, I'll be quite comfortable with them.