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Next Up in the Tartan Series: MacLachlan

June 17, 2015

1a-section-closeup

I have begun the next quilt in my Tartan Clan series. This one is based off of the MacLachlan Clan pattern.

I started with this group of plaid shirts ranging from green to pink with a little yellow thrown in for good measure.

1-shirts

I then cut out all of the hems and cuffs and straggly bits so that I have plain, flat fabric to work with.

2-cut-shirts

Straggly bits..

3-cuttings

Next comes strip piecing for similarly configured blocks. I think this pink and brown plaid is my favorite.

4-plaid-lineup

I couldn’t keep everything in order without my schematic.

5-work-table

Each section started with this central pink plaid square,

6-blocks

and became a section pieced together like this…

7-first-section

All the sections are now complete and are ready to be sewn together.

8-stacked-sections

The quilt top will then go to my amazing quilter for the next layer of patterning. So stay tuned!

 

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