Good evening, friends! Hope your week is good so far? Here the rain has briefly cleared but the wind is howling again---I'm not sure which is worse. The high winds off the water make it feel cold as January, brrrr. I was sadly under-dressed when Mo and I tried to walk earlier. Gotta dig out my snow/ wind pants and parka before his bedtime stroll.
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| Quilts I rec'd from Katy! love! |
I promised to give you the Linky info so you can see all the amazing little quilts in Lori's swap, so here ya go: Humble Quilts Doll Quilt Swap
For those of you arriving via the Linky party, this post tells more about designing and making my quilt to send to Lila, my swap partner: HERE
Remember my contribution and how I struggled to make it authentic and rule-abiding? [above] Well there seems to be more to its story. As you know I prefer to design my own little quilts, inspired by books or photos, or quilts I own [ed]. The final pink/ brown/ purple quilt was based on a blue/ red quilt, but the colors were so odd, such a stretch for me. Then the other day I was sorting through old photos trying to clear out hard drive space and I came across old pics of a little tiny quilt I bought a few years ago on eBay.
Right now the tiny quilt is missing! It's not where it belongs, so I am baffled. I haven't seen it in at least a year. But what interests me is how similar it is, sight unseen, to my swap quilt. I reproduced it without remembering it, strange.
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Back from the quilter!
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Always a thrill. I am working so hard to wrap up some of winter's projects.
Little Red is done, I do love it. Leftover blocks from TQC 1880 Sampler. 4" blocks; Penny reminded me that TQC is doing 3" blocks now instead, so fun.
It is bound and washed, dried and crinkled. I soaked it in Retayne before washing it, no hint of red fade, for which I am so glad.
We had one sunny and warm day, maybe a week or so ago. My deck is not fixed up or pretty for the coming summer but Mo and I enjoyed an hour while I did Little Red's green binding.
Mo is looking for human intruders!
Good times ahead! I have ordered three new swimsuits. Did NOT try them on though.
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Recently Lori mentioned that our next little quilt sewalong, in the Fall, may be an Amish inspired project. Fun and different! I knew I have absolutely no colorful solids, so in the spirit of Be Prepared, I was trawling the internet for small precut bundles of potential solids. I remembered years ago, Keepsake quilting always had wonderful small bundles. Instead of regular Amish solids I picked up this on-sale pack of my fave Grunge . Grunge is a solid cotton with wonderful colors, overprinted with scrapes and splotches, very subtle but there. I do hate a plain solid [why I own none] and the Grunge seems perhaps a way to bring a modern vibe to the Amish aesthetic of very dark with sparks of bright. 5.99.
On Amish Mafia [trainwreck-type faux-reality show on TV? here and HERE ] Levi, the Amish godfather, always wore bright turquoise or bright peach shirts with his black suits and black brimmed hat.
If it doesn't work for that, it will be a HST small quilt; the 5 1/2" squares will make forty blocks [or 80?], set into this beautiful almost-black solid called Indigo.
Keepsake also had these wonderful bundles of Civil War repro squares, 5.99 for 40 squares. All new to me.
I'd love to get yardage on these!
Back in the little quilt room, I am laboring over La Grande Sajou still!
Back soon! PS The buoy is still there on the beach!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach.....
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Lots of colors in your post today! Fun to see your fabrics - the Grunge ones are kind of cool (remind me of when kids have popsicles that don't wash out, lol). I'm kind of interested in what the Amish project will be like - some I've seen have been very pretty.
ReplyDeleteLove Mo 'guarding' the balcony!
The picture of the storm cloud over the beach is very dramatic!
Hope you have some more nice days ahead!
There's that Grande Sajou again with the gorgeous red border! How I love that fabric, it makes your Sajou so very special! It must be a real thrill to open up that big box and see all your creations all quilted and ready for the final binding stitches. I think your brights will be just fine in an Amish quilt if that's what Lori finally decides to do this fall. From my understanding some of the midwestern Amish communities were much more liberal in their choice of colors for their quilts. I'll have to get out my Amish quilt books soon and study them for some color inspiration so I can be ready when the time comes. Have a great weekend. We had two mostly sunny days in a row(!) but rain is expected by morning, and much of the weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt's still there? I would think they'd want to get it back where it belongs. We are in for a rainy spell too. Everything is so green! I love it. :) Kit
ReplyDeleteSajou is so beautiful. The colors call to me so much, but I'm pretty hopeless at working with them all the same. I know that from experience! lol Isn't it funny how our subconscious works and we somehow end up with a quilt that looks so much like something we've admired in the past, but completely forgotten! Pretty scary if you're writing patterns, but so much fun if you're just having fun.:)
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful. Will try this at home. Thank you for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteI think the grunge is a really good idea and will look a bit antique from the get-go!
ReplyDeleteSo many lovely quilts! Funny how the old one does look like your newer swap quilt, which is so sweet!
I have read up on T-shirt quilts and what I recall is that you should use iron on interfacing to stabilize the fabrics.
ReplyDeleteHi I don't have an email address to answer directly, so maybe you'll check back here. Yes, light stabilizer, but some say knitted., others say the light Pellonsoft-fuse? And how do I know how to fit them together? I am nervous,lol.
DeleteAll those precious, little quilts! One is lovelier than the other. The little calico cow is adorable!
ReplyDeleteSweet quilts! Mary Lee is too sweet a name for a Great White, ha ha. Your little red is so pretty. I like your basket - a Nantucket basket?
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