My cousin, Mary, was in the studio a couple weeks ago while I was piecing these blocks together....and I know she likes purple. she was admiring it, so I decided to gift it to her. I finished the binding on it today and it will go to her tomorrow. It's just under 90" square.
It is so hard to come up with a new pattern for these blocks. i finally decided to make a huge 4 patch ....with 4 patches. haha it wasn't quite large enough, so i made a scrappy border. That used up just about all of my purple fabrics and purple selvages. I was determined to use all those purple selvages, so i just kept making blocks until i ran out. Even the binding was scrappy bits...in fact, i had to piece a part of the binding to have it wide enough.
There was not enough of the same purple fabric for the sashings, so they got scrappy, too.
I just happened to have a piece of muslin that was just about the right size. There were a few blocks left over, so they increased the length of the muslin and I was good to go.
The panto is called Contour. that is a pretty dense panto and took a few days to finish this. i had to talk myself into quilting on it after the first row. haha I told myself I had to quilt 2 rows before I could turn that embroidery machine on.
Top thread was Glide Orchid; bobbin was Bottom Line Statue.
Tomorrow, when Mary gets this, I'll be her favorite cousin. hahahaha
2 comments:
Shirley, I often talk myself into continuing something when I get a bit bored with it. I do love a finished quilt, but usually 1/2 way through the quilting process I am itching to move on. This purple quilt is lovely and your friend is very lucky to be the recipient of it!
I’ll bet you already are her favorite cousin! Sometimes I really have to push myself to finish what I’ve started, but sometimes, I’ve had enough, and it goes in the 'someday I’ll finish it' pile. This one is very pretty.
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