Margaret McCaughey and Collection 21

C21 Through the lattice	Well Margaret's second collection is steaming along wonderfully. For this collection she is again using only one colour, just variations of the brown. When I look at how beautiful her blocks turn out I sometimes regret my decision to NOT use civil war reproductions. When I first showed Margaret my blocks when I was making them, about five or six years ago, she stated that they would look perfect in reproductions.
C21 Winter Grace	C21 Whirling Wind
C21 The Date	I went home and seriously considered redoing my blocks. I then counted how many blocks I had already finished. As the count was over 100 I knew myself well enough to know that if I restarted I would NEVER finish.  Also I have found that I am very poor at pairing up civil war reproductions and so I would probably have been discouraged ...  plus what would I have done with 100+ leftover blocks?

Margaret and Collection 8

What a perfect month to upload the rest of Margaret's blocks. Margaret's first collection is Collection 8. To see the rest of her individual blocks simply hit the label, Margaret McCaughey, on the left... Ok no need to be that picky just try the other left ... the one on that side >>>>>>>

Below you will see one of the other individual blocks. I like to include photos of both the individual blocks and the collections as they give different perspectives. The individual blocks allow people to see the lovely fabrics while the total collection shows you the overall appearance.

C8 King of Versailles

I had wondered how she was going to join the blocks as she had decided to do all of them in pink. The plan is to use different shirting to frame each collection. It should look superb.

Raconteur and Raconteur 141

Last weekend I caught up with a couple of my friends who are working on their own Raconteur quilts and both had brought along their latest collections. It was interesting to see the difference between the finished size of the collections and so I included it here as I thought others might like to see the difference also.

We were all surprised at how much larger the 141 size was when the collection was completed because there really didn't appear to be much difference between the individual blocks.

Rhonda Lehwess made the 141 collection, while Margaret McCaughey made the original size collection. I will upload some photos next week of the individual blocks as you can better see the blocks but right now it is late and I am going to hit the sack.

Margaret's Collection 8 Progress

It has been just over a month since I took these photos and my apologies to Margaret for taking so long to upload them but as you know I have been a bit laid low, plus busy as can be, the rest of the time. I am glad that I am on leave at present or nothing would be being uploaded.. and I am still behind in everything that I planned to do.

Anyway I have finally uploaded some great photos...Ok so the photos are only great because the blocks are so gorgeous but it is good to finally show everyone.
Margaret loves Civil War Reproductions and has decided to make all of the blocks in this collection pink and cream. Her thoughts at this stage are that her next collection will be browns and for that reason I chose brown as the background colour for each block. I have never been good at mixing my colours in Civil War fabrics and for that reason have only ever made two quilts in those colours. I wish I could match them as well as Margaret does.

C8 City Living	City Living was the first block Margaret made. When I made it I was reminded of the crapped living in major cities and with open spaces often being so far that people forgot they were there.	C8 Banana Custard
Although not using bright spring colours Margaret's choice of a totally different pink to her others does give this block a surprise factor in Spring Surprise.	C8 Spring Surprise	Now admittedly Margaret's colour choices makes Banana Custard a totally inappropriate name for this block. I love her fussy cut flowers, don't you? The busyness of her Summer Picnic suggests a great day for everyone also.
C8 Rising Mist	What a difference fabric and colour choice makes. I had trouble picking Rising Mist as the block name and if I hadn't known that Margaret was only making Collection 8 I would still be searching for its name. Great colours aren't they.	C8 Summer Picnic