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Trish Brown · 2011-06-19T05:42:56+00:00

Hello everyone! I posted here a few times about five years ago, just as I was beginning my first quilt. I was slow to get started, I think because I was scared to cut into expensive fabric without really knowing what I was doing. I'm sure you remember how it is? ;-DAnyway, long story short, but I've made a few quilts now and have lately been gathering speed and motivation. I have to digress here and say what a huge help YouTube has been to me! Watching all those brilliant people doing all those brilliant things with fabric and thread has just made my fingers itch to try too! So, I've recently gathered all the scraps together from my first two quilts and pieced them into a pretty Log Cabin baby quilt.Blue is a popular colour in our house, so most of my scraps were shades of midnight (DD's favourites) and lighter blues (DS' favourites). I put the traditional red square in the centres of all my blocks and managed to make 56 of them. Because it was all scraps, I kept running out of this or that print and so the blocks aren't all identical, but the 'vibe' is there, y'know? The quilt will be a gift for one of DD's friends who is going to be a very young (16) Mum and in need of lots of support.Well, having finished the baby quilt and found it to be pure bliss (since it was scraps, I didn't have to suffer Miscutter's Guilt), I needed something else to be going on with. I've got about four major quilts planned, but they're all in the future, since I'm still collecting prints for them. (A chintzy floral for my DMIL; a Celtic animals appliqué for my DS; a spectacularly RED quilt for my DD and a horse-flavoured quilt for my DSister - oh, and an owl-flavoured one for myself). I've got long-standing collections for all these, but I landed on a neat little project just for skill-building.I've found one of my ancient binders from 'way back and have decided to make a pretty quilted cover for it. When it's done, it will be my Quilting Information Journal where I'll keep all my...

Jun 19, 2011 22 Replies

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Pat S 15 years ago

Thanks Sally! . In message , Sally Swindells writes

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Trish Brown 15 years ago

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Trish Brown 15 years ago

I know what you mean! I've been twiddling with my line drawings for a while now, just working up to that first cut. LOL!

Wow! I googled it! It's amazing! Doesn't it do you good to feel that connection with women from long ago who toiled over their quilts just as we toil over ours?

I did! I did google it! What a brilliant subject: as you say, the Cosmati paving just cries out to be replicated in fabric! I hope you'll post updates of your design process?

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