It has been a while since I’ve shared the progress of my current quilt project.  Believe me, this isn’t because I haven’t been working on it!  I have been, even if I don’t get to work on it as much as I’d like to.  People often comment that I must have a lot of patience to create hand appliquéd quilts.  What they don’t understand is how much I love doing it.  What takes patience is getting through all the other stuff in my day until I can get back to quilting!

Section 6 Left Side

Section 6 Right Side

So here we have section 6 of the center panel.  To see the first five sections, visit the category Current Quilt Project.  Section 6 is a connector:  it picks up where section 5 leaves off and joins up with section 8.  Like sections 4 and 5, section 6 is not symmetrical but has a left and right side to keep the design in balance.

This section has 16 individual patches, which repeat twice on the left and twice on the right, for a total of 64 patches.  This brings the total number of patches in the first six sections to 449!

I had a bit of a tricky time with the three pinkish patches coming out from the top swirl.  Which one should go under and which one over?  I think I ended up with partial seams on all three.  That is to say, part of each patch is under and part of each patch is over its neighbor.  It’s hard to explain, but perhaps I’ll try in a future post.  This is a very useful appliqué technique and one I’ve employed quite often in this quilt.