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| April quilt with border! |
Here is the April quilt with border added. It's quite colorful and really cheers me up. I find that finishing these tops is not quite a difficult as finding the right backing fabric. However, I have so much yardage that finding the PERFECT backing for this was much easier than usual, probably because it is so colorful just about anything would work.
And a word about that. I tend to use 19th century reproduction/civil war or calico fabrics in my tops. That isn't to say that I don't have yards and yards of Tula Pink and Amy Butler, etc. I just don't seem to be able to incorporate those fabrics in something like this, where the original blocks are so dark.
This one is set to be pinned up in August unless I can find another place to do my pinning. Currently, I use the public library because they have conference rooms with large tables. However, they only let groups use them and only once a month.
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| Original photo of quilt (L) and my cheat sheet (R). |
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And now we come to the early May quilt. I found the photo of this quilt in a book borrowed from the library. I have no idea which book, but it is so scrappy and chaotic I just had to make it. The blocks are 4-1/2" and I used telephone book pages for the paper piecing of the string blocks. Remember telephone books?
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| Ta Da!! Love it! |
I just love it. It's not big (51" x 60") and I'm in the process of choosing the backing for it and will bind it with the same red that's in the border. There are 63 four patches and 56 string patches in this. I have to tell you that I made so many mistakes putting this together I was getting very frustrated and I pulled out miles of stitching! Worth it!
Back to the UFO bin for my next project. What will it be?
