Turkey Tracks: March 13, 2011
Warm and Wonderful
Here’s another scrappy quilt made wholly from my stash. This one uses the 4-inch blocks, and can I tell you, I have at least enough bright ones left to make a whole other quilt!
What I had fun with here is the placement of the paper doll blocks. The first one was an accident; I was just using warm colored 4-inch squares roughly alternated with neutrals. Linda McKinney passed through the quilt room one day and expressed delight with the faces and feet now scattered about the quilt. So, I deliberately did more and placed them advantageously.
Here’s a close-up, so you can see some of the quilting. I’ve learned to use stencils and pounce powder (or erasable chalk pencils) to trace in stencil lines and then to quilt them. You can see a bird and a dragonfly, at least, in this picture. And, I densely quilted. This quilt is a lap size, about 56 x 72, and it took FOUR industrial-sized bobbins. I used a commercial big-cone thread and had no problems with thread breakage. Indeed, this is the first quilt I’ve done on Lucy with which I felt really at-ease.
The backing is a warm beige that, it turned out, I had enough of to make the batting.
Warm and Wonderful was made especially for someone special.
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