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Quilt tops mostly:
Friendship Supernova
This was supposed to be a 'make a quilt, make a friend' exercise. You make twelve blocks - two identical blocks each month for six months - and you send one to someone else, who, in turn, sends you one of the two identical blocks they've made each month for six months. At the end of the six months you have twelve blocks for a quilt and a friendship.
Sounds great, right?
The problem was on matching. (Isn't it always?) You put your name in, along with some stuff about the kind of quilter you were, and you were supposed to be matched with someone who had the same style as yourself. I signed up late - just after the deadline for being matched - and so did someone else, so we ended up matched together. She handsews everything. And wanted batiks in yellow, green, and blue. Which, okay, I can deal with those.
The problem became apparent as soon as she sent me her first block. Because while I did the blocks in batiks of yellow, green, and blue, her style and my style were somewhat different.
Can you tell from looking at the quilt below which ones are mine and which ones are hers? (Can you tell the blocks themselves?)
These are the final blocks - I know there are sixteen of them, but I only received five of hers (and never heard from her again), and I wanted a larger quilt and a bit more colour variety. So I made an extra four blocks (technically five, since I never found one of the blocks she sent me), and turned it into a 4x4 rather than a 3x4 pattern.
Anyway, that's been sitting around for at least two years, maybe three. And I haven't heard from my swap partner at all since she sent the last one. I wouldn't say it was a terrible compatible match, all things considered...
meadow
A fabric designer came to town - fairly famous in the 'modern quilting' movement - and all my friends wanted to go and take the quilt course that she was putting on. I didn't have strong feelings about the designer, although I rather liked the quilt, so I took the course.
The layout is supposed to be a 4x5 square layout of 'flowers' with the coloured segments in the middle. See the original here.
Me, being me, didn't want to do it quite so staid...
So I moved things around a little. Shuffled the blocks, changed up the layout and the colours and the style. It's got a bit more movement now, I think!
The trick with this one will be the quilting, which will very much have to compliment the 'blank spaces'. I'll have to think about how I'm going to quilt it.
The plan for this one will be to give it to my cousin's husband for his second marriage. His first wife - my cousin T - died in 2015 of breast cancer. His fiancee is someone that they both knew from church circles, and seems like a lovely person, whom both A, and T's son L have come to love dearly.
I never got around to giving T a quilt; when she got married, I wasn't really into quilting, and by the time I'd found my stride, it didn't occur to me to make her one, and by the time I realised that I wanted to, she was very much dying. I regret that - especially since I have several quilts that I think would have very much been up her alley. (T, btw, was the one who first 'named' me online - not my current username, but the one that I started with online. It was an old joke hearkening back to our adolescence.)
I think I'll give the Summer Meadow 2016 to A and N for their wedding, and maybe make another quilt for T's son L while I'm at it.
Darksabre
I hadn't really named the 3rd quilt until now, but given that his family is into Star Wars and the quilt has a lot of dark squares, I think that 'Darksabre' might be a good name for it. :)
Friendship Supernova
This was supposed to be a 'make a quilt, make a friend' exercise. You make twelve blocks - two identical blocks each month for six months - and you send one to someone else, who, in turn, sends you one of the two identical blocks they've made each month for six months. At the end of the six months you have twelve blocks for a quilt and a friendship.
Sounds great, right?
The problem was on matching. (Isn't it always?) You put your name in, along with some stuff about the kind of quilter you were, and you were supposed to be matched with someone who had the same style as yourself. I signed up late - just after the deadline for being matched - and so did someone else, so we ended up matched together. She handsews everything. And wanted batiks in yellow, green, and blue. Which, okay, I can deal with those.
The problem became apparent as soon as she sent me her first block. Because while I did the blocks in batiks of yellow, green, and blue, her style and my style were somewhat different.
Can you tell from looking at the quilt below which ones are mine and which ones are hers? (Can you tell the blocks themselves?)
These are the final blocks - I know there are sixteen of them, but I only received five of hers (and never heard from her again), and I wanted a larger quilt and a bit more colour variety. So I made an extra four blocks (technically five, since I never found one of the blocks she sent me), and turned it into a 4x4 rather than a 3x4 pattern.
Anyway, that's been sitting around for at least two years, maybe three. And I haven't heard from my swap partner at all since she sent the last one. I wouldn't say it was a terrible compatible match, all things considered...
meadow
A fabric designer came to town - fairly famous in the 'modern quilting' movement - and all my friends wanted to go and take the quilt course that she was putting on. I didn't have strong feelings about the designer, although I rather liked the quilt, so I took the course.
The layout is supposed to be a 4x5 square layout of 'flowers' with the coloured segments in the middle. See the original here.
Me, being me, didn't want to do it quite so staid...
So I moved things around a little. Shuffled the blocks, changed up the layout and the colours and the style. It's got a bit more movement now, I think!
The trick with this one will be the quilting, which will very much have to compliment the 'blank spaces'. I'll have to think about how I'm going to quilt it.
The plan for this one will be to give it to my cousin's husband for his second marriage. His first wife - my cousin T - died in 2015 of breast cancer. His fiancee is someone that they both knew from church circles, and seems like a lovely person, whom both A, and T's son L have come to love dearly.
I never got around to giving T a quilt; when she got married, I wasn't really into quilting, and by the time I'd found my stride, it didn't occur to me to make her one, and by the time I realised that I wanted to, she was very much dying. I regret that - especially since I have several quilts that I think would have very much been up her alley. (T, btw, was the one who first 'named' me online - not my current username, but the one that I started with online. It was an old joke hearkening back to our adolescence.)
I think I'll give the Summer Meadow 2016 to A and N for their wedding, and maybe make another quilt for T's son L while I'm at it.
Darksabre
I hadn't really named the 3rd quilt until now, but given that his family is into Star Wars and the quilt has a lot of dark squares, I think that 'Darksabre' might be a good name for it. :)
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There are some blocks that seems to have squares in the middle, which are quite obvious and visible, and jump out of the pattern. I'm guessing those are hers, for some reason. In the other blocks, however, the colors seem to merge into the pattern and it's difficult to say when one ends and the other starts, unless you really concentrate and try to discern the pattern. The flow beautifully. I'm guessing those are yours.
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It's manageable overall (with the addition of more blocks), but it would have seriously bugged me if half my quilt had been those blocks...
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I had one quilt top that I finally just undid and removed two of the blocks and replaced them, because I just didn't like the way they looked and knew I'd never be content with the quilt if I left them.
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I'm not doing swaps anymore - although I am thinking about the #womensmarch swap on Instagram. Just not sure I'll particularly want anything that comes out of it... Have to think about that.
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On the top quilt, I was going to guess the squares with predominately yellow middles were the other person's, but there are five of those, so ... maybe not?
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Yeah, the predominantly yellow middles are my swap partner's blocks. They're...not terrible...just bland. (Which a friend of mine said on Sunday, "It's shit. I mean, I'd rip em out and not use 'em.")
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