So this is the quilt top that I made to go with a vintage piece of 1950's nursery rhyme fabric that I found. You know the one that my daughter thought was creepy? Yes, I can see her point, but I have always been fascinated by past designs and motifs in spite of their creep factor.
Here is the "creepy" fabric I will be putting on the back of it.
I will be donating this quilt to our church for an upcoming auction.
Anyway, as is very common with me I can't decide how I should quilt this. I am thinking I will keep the thread color white or off white but what design? Stipple? I have taken work off today and tomorrow to be able to work on projects like this so I hope one of you jump starts me with just the perfect idea.
GUESS WHAT?
I finished sewing together my king size log cabin quilt that I have been making for our bedroom! I don't make big quilts and I don't finish very many so this is huge huge huge for me! It is at the long arm quilters right now. There is no way I could quilt this one on my DSM. I guess it can be done as I've read about others who do, but I have no desire. UGH! Wrestling is not my favorite. I can't wait to show you. She said it will be 5-6 weeks.
DRESDEN BLOCKS
I have never made a Dresden block before so have been fiddling around with a ruler I just bought. The flower petal part of the Dresden goes together really quickly. I need to decide on a center for this one.
I'm not so sure about the next part. Sewing it down onto a square. I'm definitely open to hearing any tips you may have about sewing a Dresden!
Another project I have been playing with is a QAL being led by Lori at Humble Quilts. It's going to be a very small mini quilt. She named it Fifty Shades of Brown. So far it is a checkerboard of brown four patches and 2 1/2 inch brown squares in between those. I don't think I'm very good at picking out fabrics for this one because it looks like a hot mess! She advised us to put four squares of pink and two of blue (or whatever colors we wanted) mixed in with them. So I did, but it still just hasn't grabbed me yet. I haven't sewn anything together because I might redo some of the blocks. I am hoping whatever we are supposed to do with the borders is going to tame this down a bit!
In studying this a bit I think one of my problems is that I have included several fabrics that are mostly brown but do have other colors in them as well. I might need to eliminate those. I also noticed that my solid squares are a lot busier than Lori's so I might need to rethink those too. I sure would like to see the inspiration quilt to get a better idea what this is supposed to look like.
Anyway, quilting ideas for my creepy quilt. I'd love to hear them!!
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