The borders have been finished on this Scrap Attack quilt for several days now. I am really liking the rough, primitive style to the applique. I drew four sets of the border detail freehand, transferred it to freezer paper and then used it for my templates.
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| Scrap Attack #2--red & blues |
I know this quilt isn't to every one's taste, but everything about this quilt is ME from the improv. piecing out of my scrap bin, using up leftover applique pieces for the trees, and then adding primitive border detail. My husband says it's a very
dark quilt, but that's okay. Sometimes I'm a dark and moody person.*wink
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| Closer look at the borders |
I have slowly, slowly started working on my Learning Curves quilt too. Can someone please tell me what I was thinking to do something like this? (*hair pulling starting right about now!) Oh yes,
I wanted to sew better curves. Well, I better be a master after this huh? Oh, and does anybody know if you're supposed to iron the curves to the inside or the outside?
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| Learning Curves quilt |
I have long been a fan of 16 patch/25 patch etc. blocks so it really shouldn't be a surprise that I went for the 16 patch drunkards path look. The quilt below is one I was working on in the winter of 2007-2008. It's kinda dark too! Hmmm... Anyway, towards spring, we realized that my brother had a terminal illness and so I rushed to finish it for him.
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| Josh's quilt. |
He always bugged all of his many sisters, me included, about making him a quilt 'cuz he loved them. The one thing he complained about though was that most quilts were too short to tuck under his chin properly and then also tuck under his feet (he was well over 6 ft. tall). This was something he complained about even when he was perfectly healthy because he just liked to curl up in a quilt on occasion! I took a quilt I was working on at the time, added an improv. border, and THEN added about 11 more inches to the top and bottom just for his benefit. Let me tell you this quilt was about 110" long so he probably could have wrapped it over his head and feet all at the same time.
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| The bottom of Josh's quilt. |
Never could get a good picture of the quilt in it's entirety, but I have no regrets about giving him the quilt even though he only got to enjoy it for a few months. And yes, I had already made him a quilt years before that he had already just about wore out! He was always a little greedy about quilts, that guy.:)
