Turkey Tracks: July 19, 2022
“Wyoming Bear Paws” Quilt
“Wyoming Bear Paws” is the 9th quilt made from my winter project of using up the Cotton+Steel/Ruby Star Society fabric stash. The 10th quilt is growing on the design wall: ”Wyoming Stars.” And it has astonishing secondary patterns happening, which is so fun.
I was able to make a scrappy backing, but I don’t think I’ll have enough big pieces of fabric to make a scrappy backing for ”Wyoming Stars.” Of course, Cotton+Steel/Ruby Star Society are still making delicious prints. And I might fall into that pit. BUT, I might also use up existing stash of other fabrics. To remind, though, all of the C+S/RS fabrics use the same dyes over the years, so the fabrics ”go together” well.
Many of these bigger pieces of fabrics in this backing were ones that didn’t cut into small quilting pieces well. They needed bigger blocks, and I tend to piece with smaller pieces. That’s not true for the tiger print though. I love that print and tend to hoard it. And it comes in lots of fun colors.
I used the ”Bayside” pantograph and a soft grey thread (Signature).
As I’ve said before, it takes a deep stash to get this kind of scrappy variety in a quilt. It’s been so much fun to work with these fabrics all winter. Hmmm…and now most of the summer.
There is an adorable little girl out in Wyoming who will also need a quilt from me.
I wonder what I’ll do. I’m turning over ideas.
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Clearly a great excuse to won a deep stash 😊 I love your quilts Louisa!!
Such a fun, bright beautiful quilt! Love this one too. Are you keeping it for you?
This quilt is going to one of my Wyoming niece’s sons, and the one on the design wall is going to the other son. Thus the “Wyoming” names. There is a new baby son, but I already sent him a baby quilt. The older child is a daughter, and she will eventually get a special quilt from me.