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Quilt Gallery

Friday, January 17, 2014

Who says reproduction fabrics are dull and boring?  Lots of people make that comment when I say that I mostly make quilts using "repros".  I also love Kaffe fabrics, and lots of bright modern fabrics as well. Mostly I love the traditional "olde worlde" prints, and it is surprising how bright you can go.
Look how bright this one is!  I am calling it "Summertime" for very good reason, it looks bright and floraly, and all made with reproduction fabrics.  I don't use as many browns now as I use to, but they are specially beautiful with teal blue, or red, or pink.  I tried not to have "over the top" brightness in this quilt, and it needed a few duller mixes as well. 

So this is the Rolling Stone quilt top, with the extra 5 blocks made.  They are the ones along the left hand side.  It is a pretty big quilt now 75" square. It was too big to get a photo on the floor, so took it outside onto the clothes line, in the blistering heat!  My friend Irene calls my clothes line "the quilt gallery"!

I loved playing with the colour arrangements so much I could probably keep sewing, but I do think this is big enough now.  I am thinking of doing the "big stitch" quilting with Perle cotton on this one.  So far I have done 2 quilts this way, and it happens very fast compared to the "little stitch" quilting that I am so use to.

The final digital block for this month - the Pom Pom Tree - is now ready.  Block 3 is on the Legend and Lace website.  This is another good example of bright reproduction fabrics.  Love this bright blue!



6 comments:

  1. 'Summertime' is gorgeous! LOVE it!

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  2. Love the summertime quilt, looks good square and the colour mix works well. I too hang my quilts from the clothes line to photograph, so much easier then waiting for someone tall to agree to hold it up!

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  3. I so agree, Wendy - repros do not have to be dull and boring! Love this quilt!!

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  4. Audrey posted this link, Wendy, and I have to say how much I love your rolling stone blocks too! Wonderful colours, and I see you are like me, and love all kinds of different fabrics. But I really don't need this kind of temptation right now...

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  5. That is such a great quilt top Wendy. I agree that repros can be bright and happy too! The pom Pom tree block is super adorable!!

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  6. Summertime is wonderful! I hear that a lot, too, but I wonder what they are looking at because my repros are not dull and boring!

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