Showing posts with label Darwin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darwin. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

"I Spy" Blast from My Quilting Past

I recently made an I Spy quilt from a design I made about 11 years ago!

I designed a quilt to showcase a collection of fabrics and to teach as a project for my first Patchwork students back in the 90's. At that time it was a collection of Japanese fabrics, with hand-dyed indigo sashing. Then I did it for a couple of new babies, with novelty fabrics as an "I Spy". Most recently, I've re-used the idea in my African Quilts. It's very simple, but greatly loved! I sold a few of them when we first moved to Maleny about 8 years ago.
Recently one of those customers from the past contacted me again to ask if I still made the quilts and if I would make another one!

I said yes, and went to find my long unused shoebox of now vintage novelty fabrics. I looked up my quilt sketch book/planning journal and there found the entire details of the making of the quilt, including the words on the label, fabric requirements and costing. The lesson to be learned: ALWAYS KEEP A LOG OF YOUR QUILTS!
The fabrics brought floods of memories of my little girl, quilts, times, places and feelings from the past...
Here's Doll, always ready to comfort test a new quilt. And I just threw in a peak at another recent commission being quilted. This one's a Random quilt and looks great when finished with a jumbo pompom trim.
See you soon,
Ann.
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Blast From the Past!


I found this complete set of Bugs in Bottles blocks in a plastic bag at the bottom of my oldest plastic storage box during my studio re-organisation. I taught the quilt at Darwin CAE to one of my very first (and favourite) classes.
The question is, "What do I do now? Go ahead and finish the quilt or put them away and move on?"
I'm thinking it would be nice to finish it quickly the offer it as a raffle quilt.
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