Well, I have my slow life back and maybe will find time to do more blog posting! The entire month of April was Shophop time and it nearly wore me out!!
More Japanese quilts from the New England Quilt Museum. Lovely exhibit! Charm Quilts are the current exhibit.....another exhibit not to be missed!!
For perspective, those little white circles are 1/4". My favorite quilt after the house quilt in the previous posting about the exhibit last month.
Spent the Winter (and it was a Real Winter this year......most glad to finally have the arrival of spring!) making 90 log cabin blocks for a Queen size quilt ordered by a customer. Have to say I enjoyed making the blocks and plan to start another real soon........since it seems I did not make a dent in my supply of strips! Have also started another group of 60 of the 3.75" log cabins in my quest to make 576 for a fullsize quilt for Myself.
Sweet little Tommy sleeping on my sewing machine chair.....
And of course, new Fabric arriving! This is Circa 1825 by Sharon Yenter Evans for In the Beginning Fabrics......27 bolts. Taken from an early Ohio Star quilt ........can't start that right now...........already have too many "Works in Progress"!!! Until next time.................
Can never have too many Serpentine Stripes!!
Hello! It's been a while since I had time to catch up on blogs! Love you latest postings...would love to make it to your store someday... Great log cabin quilt! Love that scrappy look!
ReplyDeleteSure am glad to have my slow life back so I can spend more time reading/writing blogs!!! Scrappy quilts have always been my favorite.....makes me wonder if the first quilt I ever saw was Scrappy!!
DeleteI love your log cabin blocks, and would like to start one, but what size do you cut your strips? I think the smaller blocks are more effective in this pattern, plus it makes better use of your scrap bag!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, Sue! My strips are cut 1.5" and the centers are 2.5".......I like the centers to be larger as they usually were in the antique log cabin quilts......
ReplyDeleteCyndi, have missed your blogs,always love to see your photos. Are there any specific colors you are not using in the log cabin quilt (the larger block that you are making for a customer)? Judy
ReplyDeleteAm using mostly reproductions or those that look like reproductions even if they are not "marketed" as such! There are no specific colors that I am consciously not using. Many fabrics are based on archived designs down through the years. Jinny Beyer (in the 1980's) used antique fabric designs for inspiration. A couple years ago, Holly Taylor, a Moda designer of nature panels and related topics, did a line called "Northern Cardinal".....in that line was a wonderful, airy, floral that so resembled early block prints that I use it. In fact, there was another smaller print with ferns that resembled early fabrics I have studied in old quilts and in books. I would like to someday make a log cabin quilt using an 1870's look of only madder prints and shirtings.....reds, rusts, browns, a little poison green and indigo blues.
DeleteI so love that big billowy flower on on the far left first picture it is gorgeous!! The Japanese quilts are just incredible just a tad intmidated but them! so much minut handwork!
ReplyDeleteI love the centers also to be larger in Log Cabins it is what keeps the hearth warm both on the quilt and in your home. ;-)
I agree that the Japanese quilts can be intimidating! Workmanship is usually impeccable and the designs very intricate! Having studied antique quilts for nearly 30 years, I have seen a lot of antique log cabin quilts and most of them had the larger center here in Maine. As a little quilt oddity, when documentingquilts on one of the islands Downeast, we found many log cabin quilts but most had Blue centers! Added their own touch and we will likely never know why!
DeleteLove the log cabin quilt. Beautiful work.Have missed your blog.Welcome back:)
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