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It is finished! (Well, the top, anyway.)
One postage stamp quilt. Signed-up 3rd January, finished 30th January. Fastest quilt I've ever made! And so very nicely dramatic!
The finished top!
It's the scrappiest quilt-top I've ever made - usually, I select specific fabrics and the pattern is very organised. But the decision to use a range of light-coloured fabrics rather than a single fabric or several identically-shaded fabrics makes it look very scrappy - like it was made from lots of little odds and ends.
If you look at some of the other quilts in the quilt-along, you'll see what I mean.
I didn't have time to put together all the in-progress posts while I was making it, so here's some catch-up along the way!
The cut strips laid out in blocks, but not yet sewn together.
The cut strips laid out in the overall quilt pattern, but not yet sewn together.
Finished blocks.
I got 50 quilt blocks out of the strips, and it took 49 to make the quilt-top - 7 rows of 7 blocks. It's a pretty big quilt, too - about 70"x70", and visually busy.
It's also the first quilt top I've finished that doesn't automatically have a recipient. So I could save it for a rainy day, or gift it out to someone. I was going to auction it off for the Queensland floods, but I've donated to the flood appeals for Queensland, Victoria, and put an equal dollar amount in to Medecines Sans Frontieres for international medical aid. So maybe I'll save this one for a rainy day?
Although I do have a friend I promised a birthday quilt to back a couple of years ago and never got one done for her...
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I've also been thinking about offering quilts to people whose houses I've stayed at while travelling. Which, last count, meant![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sjhw_tolerance, allisnow, pandora_576, andveryginger, amilyn, havocthecat, and wiliqueen. If they'd like one, of course!
I'm also thinking about making a quilt for Agam Darshi, (Kate Freelander in Sanctuary). Mostly because, well, she doesn't get any major storylines or much dialogue/action, fandom is meh on her character, and she's quite constantly overlooked as an actress, and...well, I like Kate and Agam seems like a darling.
Rachel Luttrell apparently liked her quilt, and I know Amanda has a couple of quilts from Becky and Mumsy at GABIT. (Doubtless much better than mine!)
I even have the fabric all picked out: Sanctuary by Patty Young in Chocolate Berry. With the announcement of an S4 of Sanctuary and the start of the year, I think it might be a good project to do this year and get out to Agam.
I think, though, this time I'm going to see if there are other Kate/Agam fans willing to chip in a few dollars to help defray the costs.
--
I'm still missing my cat like crazy, all the more because she usually watches me sew, climbs up on the sewing table and then jumps down when the sewing machine starts going, plonks herself down on the quilt pieces I'm working with, and generally has me going, "Oh, cat. Not there!"
*sighs*
One postage stamp quilt. Signed-up 3rd January, finished 30th January. Fastest quilt I've ever made! And so very nicely dramatic!
The finished top!
It's the scrappiest quilt-top I've ever made - usually, I select specific fabrics and the pattern is very organised. But the decision to use a range of light-coloured fabrics rather than a single fabric or several identically-shaded fabrics makes it look very scrappy - like it was made from lots of little odds and ends.
If you look at some of the other quilts in the quilt-along, you'll see what I mean.
I didn't have time to put together all the in-progress posts while I was making it, so here's some catch-up along the way!
The cut strips laid out in blocks, but not yet sewn together.
The cut strips laid out in the overall quilt pattern, but not yet sewn together.
Finished blocks.
I got 50 quilt blocks out of the strips, and it took 49 to make the quilt-top - 7 rows of 7 blocks. It's a pretty big quilt, too - about 70"x70", and visually busy.
It's also the first quilt top I've finished that doesn't automatically have a recipient. So I could save it for a rainy day, or gift it out to someone. I was going to auction it off for the Queensland floods, but I've donated to the flood appeals for Queensland, Victoria, and put an equal dollar amount in to Medecines Sans Frontieres for international medical aid. So maybe I'll save this one for a rainy day?
Although I do have a friend I promised a birthday quilt to back a couple of years ago and never got one done for her...
--
I've also been thinking about offering quilts to people whose houses I've stayed at while travelling. Which, last count, meant
sjhw_tolerance, allisnow, pandora_576, andveryginger, amilyn, havocthecat, and wiliqueen. If they'd like one, of course!I'm also thinking about making a quilt for Agam Darshi, (Kate Freelander in Sanctuary). Mostly because, well, she doesn't get any major storylines or much dialogue/action, fandom is meh on her character, and she's quite constantly overlooked as an actress, and...well, I like Kate and Agam seems like a darling.
Rachel Luttrell apparently liked her quilt, and I know Amanda has a couple of quilts from Becky and Mumsy at GABIT. (Doubtless much better than mine!)
I even have the fabric all picked out: Sanctuary by Patty Young in Chocolate Berry. With the announcement of an S4 of Sanctuary and the start of the year, I think it might be a good project to do this year and get out to Agam.
I think, though, this time I'm going to see if there are other Kate/Agam fans willing to chip in a few dollars to help defray the costs.
--
I'm still missing my cat like crazy, all the more because she usually watches me sew, climbs up on the sewing table and then jumps down when the sewing machine starts going, plonks herself down on the quilt pieces I'm working with, and generally has me going, "Oh, cat. Not there!"
*sighs*
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