And, Oh My Heavens! I do love this quilt. Something about it just strikes my fancy big time.
*Note that the camera and my manipulation makes it look not square–it is perfectly square.
This “Summer Camp” mystery quilt was designed by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle at the Modern Quilt Society–and back in the early summer I kind of stumbled on to online posts which had people choosing their palettes and making their first sets of blocks. I just could not resist joining in. No two quilts will be the same as we all chose our own fabrics, our own blocks, and our own settings (out of three choices). The MQS web page has a gallery of these quilts if you want to see others.
I quilted with a medium grey thread, using the Deb’s Swirls 14-inch pantograph. I wanted texture but not really intensive texture. And I had enough of this “Newsprint” fabric by Carrie Bloomston (Windham) for the backing. I thought it a grand choice for a very modern quilt. And I bound in the same “field”/background fabric I chose: Kona Juniper.
Here are some close-up pics of these very, very fun blocks.
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This quilt is my 216th quilt.
Now, back to Traverse, who has been waiting for me to sew down the Summer Camp binding so I can show it at next week’s Patchwork Gals meeting. The 12 wt. threads I ordered from Red Rock Threads for Traverse should come next Monday, so I’ll be able to do the row I skipped for the moment.
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It’s really amazing! I never work with solids but I love yours. The colors you’ve chosen work well together. I can’t imaging making that many quilts! Jan in MA
Oh my goodness Louisa! It’s lovely! And your 216th quilt!!!!! Amazing! 😍😍😍
I do love this modern pattern – and your colors are perfection! How did you get into quilting?
How did I get into quilting? Well, that’s a good question. Way back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, I made two “bedspreads” for my two sons–made of squares and hand tied. I didn’t recognize them as quilts back then, but do now. Quilting was only just beginning to take off into how we know it today–and modern tools were just coming into the markets (rotary cutters, cutting pads, rulers, etc.) I didn’t have those tools when I made the two bedspreads. Back then, with my first sewing machine, I mostly made garments, for me, for my little ones. (They shudder now at pictures of the colors popular at the time.). Much later–I had a dear friend who spent a few nights with us each week–and she quilted. I remember going into a local JoAnn’s and looking at the whole wall of cotton fabrics for a project (I forget what it was) and thinking that if I touched that fabric, I would be hooked. I touched, my friend helped with books and guidance, and I was launched. That was in the late 1990s. I was off and running and have never looked back. Working with my hands, with fabrics, with new ideas and learning curves–it is my passion.
That is so awesome Louisa, you are truly inspirational!
I absolutely love this quilt, it looks like so much fun! I have a good amount of that same backing fabric for a some day quilt…you truly inspire me!