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I needed to make a new baby girl quilt and Marsha McCloskey's 'Blended Quilts' has been calling to me for a long time. You can see her book over at Big Horn if you are not familiar with these patterns. Marsha's quilts are beautiful but entirely too sedate for what I think a baby will enjoy. I used pale pink, peach pink, hot pink, floral, sherbet plaid, wavy checks and tossed in a handful of purple roses. Adding a bit of lime and some orange made it just sing. Ah. I don't know what Marsha and the Quilt Police would think of my interpretation of Blended Quilts but it was great fun to take a pattern and make it mine. Polly

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Polly Esther
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Talking to myself here. Getting my arrangement down from the design wall and stitched in order was quite a challenge. I used a trick I'd seen and heard of but never tried. I marked numbers on some bright yellow daisy-head pins and seriously pinned each block. Seriously pinned means 'in/out then in/out again'. Pressing didn't seem to harm the pins and I was able to get my symphony back up without anything spinning off key. Polly

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Polly Esther

Do we get to see pictures? I have a baby girl quilt to make by November and so far I don't have an inspiration. KJ

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KJ

How I wish I could, KJ, but don't have a way to do that. I feel just very blessed that I get to share words with my friends. Do keep this in mind for inspiration - think pink and right alongside that thought, think dynamite. What's the song? I am Woman, hear me roar. Polly

"KJ" wrote > Do we get to see pictures? I have a baby girl quilt to make by November and

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Polly Esther

You go girl! Don't know anything about "blended quilts" but I saw the "purple rose" and lime and orange and thought - "well , ok, then". The wine helped. Don't worry about the Quilt Police, I saw them heading out of town after a bunch of ner' do wells talking on their cell phones while driving, so they are plenty occupied!

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AliceW

And what's wrong with that? Your version is no doubt brighter than Marsha's, but it's still blended, isn't it? And making a pattern your own is admirable -- far too many of us simply make a carbon copy of what we see somewhere else. (Note to self: no wonder I'm not happy with my hummingbird quilt!)

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Sandy Foster

Hi Polly,

I bet your baby quilt is a beauty! Blending is a technique and you just did it your way!

One word of caution about the daisy head pins - they can and do melt! BTDT ;-)

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Bonnie NJ

Thank you, Bonnie. I'll take your warning very seriously. There are

16-patches in this little quilt and I really and truly want every piece to stay in place until it's all stitched together. Polly

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Polly Esther

If you are not careful, you can also sew through them. BTDT too. Anna Belle

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Anna Belle

Ho yusss... But I've also sewn through the heads of safety pins, so there's no escape there, either!

Clover do some horribly expensive flower head pins that I have yet to melt, even on the linen setting.

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Kate Dicey

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