Monday, July 6, 2020

Dipping Into the Parts Department (Again)

I've made a consistent effort over the last few years to use up the oldest fabrics in my stash. There's a set of rusty color prints whose time had come. However, when I pulled the stack off the shelf I discovered there were actually two different hues of rust waiting to be used. I left the more orange-y prints for another day. That decision was helped along by a couple of postage stamp stars I already had in the Parts Department. They had appropriate backgrounds even though the stars weren't the color I had chosen. A couple featured dark blues and one is actually black.


Poor James has little opportunity to do interesting things on the quilts I make when he quilts them up for me. Back in the day I avoided quilts with large open spaces that called for fancy quilting. Technically I'm not a quilter, I'm a piecer, a patchworker. Now that I have him to take care of that part of the job I figured it was time to give him a place to stretch his wings a bit. Plus, alternate squares automatically left me with fewer blocks to make!


Turns out I didn't have enough of the print I was planning to use for all of the alternate squares I needed. That meant a couple of additional prints had to be introduced to achieve the size I was after (just a lap quilt, about 48" x 56"). Toward the end of the process I had to improvise within the stars as well.


All I need now is a back and some batting!


3 comments:

  1. The improvisations make for a very pretty quilt - lots of variation in the shading and movement. Good idea to add the alternate blocks (I'm a piecer at heart so I totally relate).

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  2. That really looks nice! You must show us what James decides to do with that open space!

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  3. I love when you play in the parts department - it's like you wave a magic wand and a quilt appears!
    And yeah, I'm a piecer, too. That's where all the fun is!

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