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Thought I'd share this info about Ocean Wave quilts since I was talking about them with another group.
For years when I looked at these quilts my first response was no! absolutely not. Just the idea of making a gazillion and three HSTs practically made me take to my bed. lol All the rotary cutting and strip piecing of these last decades have made patterns like this more of a possibility. I'm 99.9% certain that I would never have made so many Lone Star quilts if it weren't for strip piecing.
I think this was one of those patterns that just appeared. Most likely it was the product of a woman who wanted a pleasing arrangement for a big pile of scraps. Barbara Brackman says it became popular about 1875.
Ocean Wave: Category Five
Another thing that discouraged me in the past was the setting of all those triangles into oblong blocks around a center square. That meant mitering the pieced sides together and all the bias cuts of scraps in an Ocean Wave made it fussier than I wanted to deal with. That isn't an issue if you make a square block to begin with. It just means you have seams across that center square. Q is for Quilter has a beautiful scrappy OW using traditional piecing. I pulled up a couple of tutorials showing how to make the simpler square blocks.
Ocean Waves Quilt Top
Ocean Waves Quilt Pattern – Quilt For Lovers
Classic and Vintage Series: Ocean Waves
My favorite is the Canning Season sewalong from Hazel's Diary. She breaks it down to smaller blocks.
Canning Season: Section Tutorial
Canning Season: Assembling Blocks
Canning Season: Layout and Setting Instructions
Canning Season: Adding Borders
She's using 2" finished HSTs in hers but larger HSTs would mean bigger and fewer blocks.
She set hers on point but you could just set the blocks square. Since I've finally pulled out my Triangles on a Roll, I've also put this quilt on my list of potential future UFOs. Has anybody here made an Ocean Waves quilt?
For years when I looked at these quilts my first response was no! absolutely not. Just the idea of making a gazillion and three HSTs practically made me take to my bed. lol All the rotary cutting and strip piecing of these last decades have made patterns like this more of a possibility. I'm 99.9% certain that I would never have made so many Lone Star quilts if it weren't for strip piecing.
I think this was one of those patterns that just appeared. Most likely it was the product of a woman who wanted a pleasing arrangement for a big pile of scraps. Barbara Brackman says it became popular about 1875.
Ocean Wave: Category Five
Another thing that discouraged me in the past was the setting of all those triangles into oblong blocks around a center square. That meant mitering the pieced sides together and all the bias cuts of scraps in an Ocean Wave made it fussier than I wanted to deal with. That isn't an issue if you make a square block to begin with. It just means you have seams across that center square. Q is for Quilter has a beautiful scrappy OW using traditional piecing. I pulled up a couple of tutorials showing how to make the simpler square blocks.
Ocean Waves Quilt Top
Ocean Waves Quilt Pattern – Quilt For Lovers
Classic and Vintage Series: Ocean Waves
My favorite is the Canning Season sewalong from Hazel's Diary. She breaks it down to smaller blocks.
Canning Season: Section Tutorial
Canning Season: Assembling Blocks
Canning Season: Layout and Setting Instructions
Canning Season: Adding Borders
She's using 2" finished HSTs in hers but larger HSTs would mean bigger and fewer blocks.
She set hers on point but you could just set the blocks square. Since I've finally pulled out my Triangles on a Roll, I've also put this quilt on my list of potential future UFOs. Has anybody here made an Ocean Waves quilt?