Several list members have made this quilt and just loved it...
it is so exciting to see the pattern come together. 
Our Frenz made discoveries along the way and shared their idea's...

Elaine Olsen from IL made this block from a border print type of fabric!  She had no strips to sew together.

This is a really creative way to make a hidden wells easier.

She cautions that  you have to be very careful with the bias edges on this technique as there are no seams to stabilize the edges. 

So use a lot of starch... possibly just dunk the whole piece of fabric in liquid starch and make it stiff as can be.  It will hold those edges in place.

If you could layer and cut identical  pieces you would have a "hidden wells stack and whack" type of thing going!! 

my oh my... focus on that idea!
 

Elaine also made this block. The striped fabric adds a lot of interest, doesn't it?

Experiment... 

Frenze list member Robin Gallagher from Seal Beach, CA, made this great "Amazing Hidden Wells" quilt. 
 

The purple, green and gold color combo are very stunning. 

Notice you need a lot of contrast to make the quilt design come alive.

Carolyn Davis made this Amazing HiddenWells.

Aren't the colors just great?  I like the way the yellow floral fabric forms an "O" design and then is also in the center of the opposite "O" design

Carolyn says about her quilt:

One thing I would do a little different is move the burgundy down a little, I had a little tiny piece of burgundy in the middle of the yellow squares
that just about disappeared, would like it to be a little bigger (I don't think it shows in the pic, its so small).

Dk blue      2"
Lt blue      3"
burgundy     4.25"
yellow       2"
solid green  1.5
cream        2.5
multi green  3

Hidden wells by Mary Ann Beattie
Queen Size

I make this for my niece for Christmas. It is hunter green and burgundy, with cream, gold and black. 
It is the first quilt that I made entirely by machine.  This includes the quilting and the binding that I brought from the back to the front since I had a lovely paisley print on the back. At first I didn't think that I liked the light print but after I got it put together I realized that it really added that "sparkle" that this quilt needs for the design to work.

Here is a close-up and better colors, and a pic of the quilting from the back.  The back is a burgandy print but the light coming through is making it look lighter.
Hidden Wells from 5.5" strip sets. The completed wall hanging is 16" x 16"and a total of 9 hidden wells.

Aren't the plain Amish tone colors gorgeous?  It was made by a friend of one of the list members and I will find out her name.

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