Project: Carpenter's Wheel Medallion *COMPLETE! See post 71 *

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My grown niece requested a quilt and though I don't do quilts for family (they never seem to appreciate them or the work it takes), Ranee is an exception. She was floored that I would do one for her and says she will cherish it, pay me for it and is thrilled that I would one this for her. Of course, I don't plan to charge her for it--it's enough that she is someone who will truly appreciate it. Ranee is in her 30's and a long haul truck driver, lives in South Carolina. I see her only about once every couple of years. She picked out one medallion quilt I did many years ago in purples, lavenders, pinks and grays from a picture my DH showed her at Christmas. This one is not quite as muted as that other one, and not the same center star block, but I think she'll like it. I added sagey greens in there because it just seemed too monotone without another color for the purples and pinks to play off of.

Next will come a 5"-6" pieced border, which will take it to the side edge of my queen mattress. Not sure if simple 9 patches or Friendship Stars or Windmills or what will be a good one to do for that.


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OOOO, the Carpenter's Square and the Wheel Medallion are truly an oldfashioned test of a quilter's skill and sooo cool!

Here are a few photos of one I did a while back. The block is placed in the upper left on the quilt top.

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In this photo, I'm applying the quilting pattern for the sashings. I'm still working on the hand quilting on this one.
It's been a piece I come back to in between other projects.
 
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How neat, Kathryn! You are so much more talented than I could dream of being. I'm in awe of some of you ladies!
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This is the next part of Ranee's quilt, the first pieced border. I love this primitive heart block--once made a cute baby quilt with it. I just hope I have enough of this background fabric to do the whole border! This was a good sized piece that came from goldenluver's stash. Each block is 5" finished size.

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Thank you, Robin. Here is one side of the border finished. Oh, thought I was dead in the water with that background fabric when I didn't have enough to cut anymore 3" squares for the center top of the heart, but I managed to piece a few 3" squares, so it will all match.
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I'll have to decide about the corners, though. I ran out of background fabric.
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Used every piece I could till there were just strings left, LOL. Was considering doing solid one color or maybe the same pattern in darker solid colors anyway.

Here is the newborn baby quilt I made with this border block:

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Very nice.

I will admit, however, that I clicked the link looking for a different type of medallion.
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