Free Wheeling Single Girl

At the recent VCQ meeting, Sue was in Lee Taylor's workshop using the Free Wheeling Single Girl pattern by Denyse Schmidt. 

This is a fun project and she is looking forward to getting back to it and completing some more blocks.  There are some templates to trace onto freezer paper before you get started sewing, but once the sewing starts, the fun begins!  The arcs are pieced from wedges of scraps and then trimmed down to the template size. 

Then the center and outside background pieces are stitched to the arcs.

Four quarter arcs make up each block which finishes at about 22".  There is excess built into the pattern, so the finished size can vary - just make sure all your finished blocks end up the same!

This was one of Lee's sample quilts, using a mixture of neutral backgrounds.

Another sample uses a gray background.  You could also go with a dark background and lighter arcs, as in this block by Cathy Tyler of Richmond.

Cathy's background is a print of Paris, which can be seen better in the photo below.

Pat's block, below, uses a blue background.

As you can see, this block offers lots of options, and we bet you can't make just one!