Seattle: Pink and blue compass

More sashing, less number of blocks. Helps to disguise blocks that refuse to be aligned. Compasses and geese are favored combos by quilters, since these two combined add a lot of movement to any quilt, especially in medallion types.

For the rectangle shapes used as borders, I used an expired credit card as a template. It is firm enough to trace around a good number of fabrics, better than a cardboard template which would fray and curve after some tracings. I keep a supply of old metro cards, telephone top-up cards, promo cards stuck on magazine pages, and the good old credit cards too with the numbers and signatures scratched out with a dull knife. I also use them to make sharp straight pencil lines for applique, and also as small-size rulers for paper/ foundation piecing. Or any job that requires precise but short lines. I've also cut them up into small templates requiring squares, triangles, rectangles.

Pema has brought this quilt with her to New York in 2009. Measures about 95 x 100 inches. Wait til you see the backing, in the next posting!