{"id":3591,"date":"2022-03-20T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2022-03-20T20:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:29:33","slug":"grenoble-a-norwegian-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3591","title":{"rendered":"Grenoble, a Norwegian Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s amazing what can inspire you. I was once inspired by some quilted toilet paper. This time inspiration was a knitted jumper. There’s a fabulous magazine in Norway called Hjemmet, which my mother has subscribed to for as long as I can remember. As I was reading one of their knitting supplements on classic Norwegian jumpers \u00a0designed by Dale Garn for the Olympic Games throughout the years I fell in love with the jumper designed for Grenoble in 1968.<\/p>\n

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Design by Dale Garn, Norway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m not a knitter, in fact all my Norwegian jumpers and cardigans have either been knitted by my grandmother or my mother, but I am a quilter. So I turned the Grenoble jumper into a Grenoble quilt. I changed very little in the snowflake as I think its beautiful the way it is but replaced the stripes with a zigzag as I loved the zigzag at the bottom but knew I didn’t have space for it in this quilt.<\/p>\n

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It’s going to be a long term project. I’ve decided to go for 1.25″ squares as this means this quilt will end up being 61.25″ x 73.75″. I think that’s a good size for a single bed. I might make it bigger but I think it’s good to start with a manageable size.<\/p>\n

I’ve calculated that I need 2891 squares for this quilt, 1753 for the background and 1138 squares for the pattern. I haven’t calculated how much fabric I need exactly but I think it’ll be about 1.50m for the background and about 1m for the coloured fabric. I’m still pondering a few things before jumping in and starting this new project:<\/p>\n