Today begins the Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by Amy's CreativeSide. Please take plenty of time to view entries, take notes and jot down favs each day - it will help when it comes time to vote. This is our way of enjoying Quilt Market - for those of us who can't go to the real thing.
This quilt was actually almost never finished. It was started way back in 2009 when I first started quilting. My first QAL online - unfortunately I do not remember the name of site and its now a disfunct AOL site so the pattern is not available any more. It is the first quilt I bought specific fabric for. Back at that time I was only just educating myself on fabrics and designers - I like to give credit. I think most of these were blenders by Blank Fabrics. Another thing I learned in the making of this quilt - I don't like to make large quilts. And I have found my niche as a scrap quilter and prefer to play with mini's - so the fabrics in this just didn't please me or the size, so off into a hidey-hole she went.
I 'unearthed' this quilt at the time I started admiring a new long armer. I just knew this was the person I wanted to frost this quilt to make it come alive.
Valerie @ Pumpkin Patch Quilter was gracious in accepting this Plain Jane and turning her into a beauty. She worked her magic on those bare blenders - they just sing.
But before sending her off, I had to completely remove the center. Applique is still not my forte', but this was too horrible to send as is. I completely removed the center from the quilt; I replaced the applique sunflowers with pieced and totally redid the stems and leaves. I had this hideous large Yo-Yo in the center (why) and replaced it with the circle. Thankfully, being a scrap quilter - I had saved every bit of left over of this quilt and had just enough for the fixes. Then the center had to be stitched back in place. A few boo-boos were fixed and then she was on her way.
You could just flip this quilt and call it a whole cloth - just love it. But she waited almost 2 months after coming home from being frosted. Why we should never let a project sit for so long - it took some time to find the right material to work as a binding.
Finished size: 66" x 84"
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Sewingly Yours,
Sharon
Lovely quilt and great quilting. I think it funny how we in the middle of a creative process sometimes can fall out of love with the project... Only to pick up much later and realise it was a hidden treasure :)
ReplyDeleteA lovely quilt with a great story to go along with it! :) I am enjoying the festival this morning :)
ReplyDeleteI was immediately drawn to this quilt! It is so lovely. (I'm glad I didn't enter my quilt in this category!) Good luck! So far there are some wonderful quilts!
ReplyDeletei love your filigree work in the blocks. very nice quilt!
ReplyDeleteA finished UFO and a remake of the center too! :-) Wow, the quilting is just gorgeous! I know your one happy camper with this beauty! Don't you love checking off the old stuff, so you can go onto the new!
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Love the story of this quilt, the rejected one ;) I look back at my first quilts and I think how much I've learned and how I have defined my taste for fabrics and colours. So brave of you to unearth it and give it a new life, I'm sure it will be loved and cherished. It's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love that your call the quilting- "frosting". Nice to get this UFO out of hiding so you could fall in love with it after all the re-work.
ReplyDeleteThe workmanship on this one is amazing!
ReplyDeleteNot a plain Jane at all! Beautifully done! Love the term 'frosted' - that is exactly what quilting does!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finishing up your not so plain Jane! It's a lovely quilt and the quilting is spectacular.
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