Lady of the Lake 1980
Wall Hanging: Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted
Pattern: Georgia Bonested’s Lap Quilting and More Lap Quilting
Georgia Bonested’s books have a similar basic pattern called Saw-Toothed Square. The Lady of the Lake uses more colors.
This wall hanging predates, rotary cutters, and any easy half-square triangle sewing tips or aids. With today’s easier more accurate way of constructing the half-squares you can get a much more uniform resulting squares. I know if I was to do this pattern wall hanging or bed quilt again now, lots more of the points would match up better! Not all of them mind you, that never happens!
The concentric squares of quilting result from throwing a “square” rock into the center of the lake.
Again if you arrange the half-square blocks differently and use a different color theme this would turn into a completely different quilt, so think outside the “square” as it were and have fun!
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