Or so I thought. Selecting quiet prints involved getting into the taupe and tan neighborhood, not my usual section of the color world. The Lecien "Scandinavian Christmas" fabrics caught my eye, especially the tan with red polka-dot mushrooms, and the taupe with tall houses, feather Christmas Trees, and Father Christmas.
You'll see in my finished blocks that with all the best intentions, I still wound up using red prints and even deep scarlet flowers in the mix. So much for a quiet, reserved, even restrained quilt.
Lovely how all the different manufacturers color palates worked for this quilt. The center of this star block is the fabulous "Hometowns" fabric from Moda.
So, during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, I will list many things for which I am grateful, among them Fuji apples, cell phones, a healthy family, good friends, snow on the mountains, life, liberty, and the pursuit of quilt fabrics.
At the end of the Scandinavian Christmas project I will undoubtedly have a batch of extra tan fabrics. Hmm. Sounds like a give-away in the making. Speaking of bits and pieces, I asked several friends for their opinions of, in quilt fabrics, how small is too small a scrap to keep. We'll delete the names to protect the innocent:
Response 1: "Don't keep anything smaller than a fat quarter."
Response 2: "It depends. Usually I don't keep anything smaller than a two and a half inch square."
Response 3: "You mean people throw scraps away?"
Send me your response. In fact, send me your response and I'll put you in a drawing for a fabulous assortment of bits and pieces. None smaller than 2.5 inches.
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| First border corner blocks and photographer's shadow. Guess who was in a hurry. |
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| Outer border corner blocks |
So, during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, I will list many things for which I am grateful, among them Fuji apples, cell phones, a healthy family, good friends, snow on the mountains, life, liberty, and the pursuit of quilt fabrics.
At the end of the Scandinavian Christmas project I will undoubtedly have a batch of extra tan fabrics. Hmm. Sounds like a give-away in the making. Speaking of bits and pieces, I asked several friends for their opinions of, in quilt fabrics, how small is too small a scrap to keep. We'll delete the names to protect the innocent:
Response 1: "Don't keep anything smaller than a fat quarter."
Response 2: "It depends. Usually I don't keep anything smaller than a two and a half inch square."
Response 3: "You mean people throw scraps away?"
Send me your response. In fact, send me your response and I'll put you in a drawing for a fabulous assortment of bits and pieces. None smaller than 2.5 inches.
2 comments:
1 inch scraps if it's fantastic fabric that goes with my stash or has the potential to be a great in an applique (as a flower petal or center, etc)
I've read about strip piecing, and may try that with my scraps someday. Anna! I am almost finished with my kaleidoscope quilt--I'm working on the binding!! I wanted to enter it a contest this week, but it turns out they need all the receipts for the fabric, and I didn't keep it from 3 years ago. (Do people really finish a quilt in one year?) I love your Dresden plate!
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