Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Winter Wonderland
In 2008 I designed and made this wholecloth quilt. It was to be my entry for IQF in Houston, but alas and alack, it all fell apart days before the deadline. Oops. I finished the quilt and at Thanksgiving time that year I presented it to my brother for his birthday. I really enjoyed making this quilt and there were lots of lessons learned especially about having enough thread from the same dye lot from the get-go. I spent numerous hours one day going from store to store trying to match thread color. Not fun!! In the end I was very pleased with the quilt although I have no decent pictures of it. Oh, well. This is a queen sized quilt and I would really like to design and make another one. But it is very time consuming and right now I'm all about the instant gratification!! Maybe later this year . . .
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3 comments:
Oh my goodness! I do hope your brother was suitably impressed and humbled! What a wonderful gift. I can't imagine making a whole cloth and all that hand quilting! Fabulous!!!
Oh, my, what work in that. How gorgeous. I've always wanted to do a whole cloth, but I like to use colored thread and a white/white would get boring to me.
Wow! Your quilting is amazing. I have never had the nerve to do a whole cloth quilt. I think I need to practice my quilting more, before I jump into that. I'm sure your brother just adores that quilt.
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