Wallhanging size -- 19" square

Scan of actual quilt,
top left corner.

The photo on the left was taken by a Kodak minicam.  The photo on the right is an actual scan of the quilt (upper left block) of the wall hanging.  You can see the fabrics pretty well and hopefully you will be able to visualize the fabrics as being in the wallhanging.

I really liked the fabrics and wanted to see if I could use them, exclusively, in a small wall hanging.  As it worked out, the only fabric that I had to dig out of my stash was the fabric that I used for the backing of the wall hanging.

I tried making a quilt "from scratch" in EQ3, ended up with a few "possibles", but none of the afternoon's "play"  ended up with anything that grabbed me.  I knew that I wanted to make the floral fabric a focal point and also knew that I didn't want to cut it up into bitty pieces.  So, I started going through a stack of my quilting magazines (another pleasant time) and ran across the American Quilter magazine Vol. XI, No.2, Summer 1995.  On page 54, there was an article on "Scenes Through My Window" by Mary Lehmann.  I had my wallhanging!  An attic window, with a perspective!

The challenge now was to see if I had enough fabric to duplicate the quilt.  The directions for the quilt called for cutting 6 1/2" squares for the windows.  I changed that and cut 4 1/2" squares instead.  With a little bit of math, I figured out that if I was frugal and careful in my cutting, I could get the wall hanging out of the fat eighths.  When ironing the fabric, to get it ready for cutting, I used spray sizing, because I knew I was going to be dealing with a lot of "odd"  bias angles and wanted stiffness and stability to the fabric.  The first couple of attic window blocks that I made, turned out just fine.  The 3rd one, well , the sides of the window stuck out like a dancer  trying to do the splits!  What went wrong here?

I thought that my only challenge was to see if I had enough fabric to make this wall hanging.  The new challenge was to see if there was a way of getting accuracy in these odd angled blocks. 

The elements for the blocks were cut using the strip piecing method.  Maybe the ruler slipped when I cut some of those 30°, 45° and 60° angles.  I thought of PaperPiecing the blocks, but that sure wasn't going to work, because of the set-in window.  But, I did use paper to get the accuracy for those odd angles.  

There are 3 different blocks (perspectives) of the attic window block in this quilt and each block is a finished 6" block. In EQ3, I drew the 3 different blocks and printed out 1 copy of each of the different blocks as a 6" block.  On the paper printout, I used a pencil and ruler and extended the line of the angles, of each printed block.  That's so I could see that penciled line, which is the stitching line, in the next step.  I did not cut the printout, used it just "as is".   Working from the printed side of the paper, I put some temporary adhesive (I use Dry Line adhesive) on the strip sections of the paper print-out.  This would hold my fabric pieces in place when I marked the stitching lines, with pencil, on the wrong side of the fabric.  I took an angled strip of fabric that I had previously cut and laid it on the print-out (wrong side of fabric up) and sure enough, the angle on the fabric was wrong, when compared to the printout.  Not by much, but enough to throw the attic window out of whack.