Another Spiderweb

Spiderweb in progress
Spiderweb in progress

I often find older patterns that don’t seem popular, but have very interesting shapes or lines. I see them at shows in antique quilt exhibits or in books or in early to mid-century magazines or in Barbara Brackman’s book or ripped out of ancient newspapers for sale on eBay.

Mostly, they cannot be strip pieced. Let’s face it, some of those patterns are nearly impossible to piece with the patterns given. Remember the Snowball Wreath? The Flowering Snowball is also no picnic to piece, though completely doable.

I was cruising around the web and found my way to Mrs. Schmenkman’s Quilts somehow or other. Those pesky links, you know. 😉 There I found another, yes ANOTHER spiderweb quilt.

You can see a tutorial and a post about her changes to the tutorial on that site as well

Mrs. Schenkman's Spiderweb

The hand stitching is a nice addition, don’t you think?

It is very obvious, at least to me, now that I don’t get out much. Here I am sitting in my workroom sewing away on quilts with patterns that I think nobody is interested in. then I find a whole quilt subculture of people making the same pattern.

Mrs. Schenkman's Spiderweb, full

This just makes me think that I am too isolated in my quilting world. I sit in my workroom and work on pieces in which I am interested. I don’t get a regular influx of other people’s ideas except from the web. The web is good, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think it is enough sometimes. OR I am not cruising round enough.

Author: Jaye

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

4 thoughts on “Another Spiderweb”

  1. Hi Jaye – great minds think alike – I am working on my 8th or 9th string pieced project this winter, and the cobweb was one of them.
    I really like the navy background. I had a lot of trimming to do as the bias really distorted.
    I am forwarding your post to Annie Copeland as she and I are shareing any pics of string piecing that we find. She’ll likely drop by to see.

    1. Hi Nina,
      Thanks for stopping by my blog. Do you have pictures of your projects? I would love to see them. Anne is most welcome to stop by! Thanks for your comment.

  2. It can seem like we are so isolated as it can be a solitary pursuit for some. I found a good way to keep up was flickr and facebook…heaps of quilters in both places happy to share and network. I have not yet tackled a spiderweb but i should!

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