At last this quilt is on my dining room wall. I bought the top at our downtown antique mall about 10 years ago - it was a Christmas present to myself. Earlier this year I dug it out, repaired the seams that had unraveled, and asked Eula Lang to machine quilt it. She gamely accepted and did a wonderful job. She did make the necessary comments:
1. The edges are not straight but I'm assuming you know that.
and
2. Not everything could quilt out.
How I love being able to look at it on the wall. What kind of fabric diary was this? Just when I think I see some pattern or order, it goes away. There are nine-patches! There are 12 patches and everything in between.... Some fabrics reappear all over but there is one section that was definitely added at a different time with very different fabrics - the lower right corner. Most of the squares are 1 1/2" square but they get larger in that corner. And notice that lone long strip in the upper right corner.
My dad likes to count things. As I was binding this the other night, he whipped out a yardstick and counted blocks in one corner. He estimates there are more than 1,600 squares in this quilt. I'm not going to count and confirm that right now but I can tell you it measures about 70" x 78".
If you want to see a little more about my quilts, see
a nice blog BB wrote about me on our guild web site.
lovely. I would have fun looking at this over my morning cereal every day. nice post BB wrote about you!
ReplyDeleteMy kind of scrappy quilt.
ReplyDeleteFantastic!! Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteNice show of your quilts on the Kaw blog! They are each so different, but you can see the thread that makes them yours.
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt. I can only imagine how beautiful it must make your dining room wall!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had a large wall to display a quilt like this....awesome.
ReplyDeleteAlso enjoyed the Kaw Blog! Wish our guild had a similiar one.
Wow!!! I find it very inspirational. Just keep making blocks of square and jam them together. What fun!!! Bonnie
ReplyDeletelove it, truly love it! I definitely noticed that extra strip added in to make it go together - definitely my kind of quilter!
ReplyDeleteI keep going back to look at this! I'll bet it's hard to leave your dining room. Think I'd have to put my sewing machine in there.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous. I'm in the process of re-creating as closely as possible a 9-patch quilt (made entirely from scraps) that a friend made - she was nearly finished when it was almost entirely destroyed in a fire in her home. I just sent her a link to your blog :)
ReplyDeleteOh boy! Did this quilter ever have fun! Love it! Love it!!! I love the comment above about just jamming it together!hahahhaa! I've got to do one of these FOR SURE. I'm going to go throw some square together right now.
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