While shopping at the antique mall, one of the things I’ve been noticing re-surge more and more are Victorian Crazy Quilts and all of their lovely styles and forms. Since I cannot begin to to…
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Quilting can conjure up images of fussy bedrooms in meemaw's house. It can also evoke images of total fun and funkiness. Take for example this Indigo Star
Lots of photos following, so brace yourself. I decided to do a CQ block - in pink, monochromatic (mostly) - using all of the stitches I have learned in TAST so far plus a couple of extras. This is the resulting block. Notice I did not use one single bead! You have no idea how hard that was for me to avoid the temptation. Really! This is the naked block I started out with. Close-up of the center floral motif. First, let me point out I added some sheer floral printed fabric over a couple of the shiny sections. This one is gathered slightly. I left some of the satin show along the seam. This is a little darker area from the sheer and is over a darker pink. Again, the satin shows along the buttonhole stitch area. I will list the stitches from top to bottom rows on each of the following close-ups. Cretan, French knot, knotted Cretan, buttonhole wheel (1/2), chain, French knot, lazy daisy/detached chain: French knot, Herringbone (both light pink and dark pink rows), Algerian Eyelet, fern leaf: This is kind of mixed up, but there are SRE petal stitch flowers, lazy daisy flowers, French knots, bullion rose and stitch, stem stitch rose and stem stitch, spider web rose: Web is straight stitch with couched connections; spider is whipped wheel with a little satin stitching over body and straight stitch for extending legs: Basque, scroll stitch, butterfly chain, French knots and lazy daisy (detached chains), straight stitch, up and down buttonhole: (From left to right in pie-shaped section) - French knot, buttonhole wheel (1/4), lazy daisy, straight stitch, French knot, running stitch, crossed buttonhole, bonnet: (butterfly) satin stitch, chain stitch, Fly 'Y' stitch; (below butterfly and in no particular order) French knots, wheat ear, straight, lazy daisy, feather stitch (bottom): Wheat ear, back stitch: (lace is added) Barred chain, half chevron, oyster, chain, buttonhole: Chain (3 rows), zig zag chain, Palestrina, cable chain, Chevron: There! I think that should be at least 35 unless I left out a seam somewhere. I you don't get close to the same count, let me know. This was so much fun and I will likely do it again, using my tags for reference.
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From the 2012 Tokyo Quilt Festival, via A la Claire Fontaine.
art quilt using only prints with flowers and leaves
Cleaning was inevitable. It had to happen.... I rarely custom quilt for customers anymore but I have a few ladies who have been with me from my beginning who I will always quilt for. This particular lady loves the asian panels and I have really enjoyed quilting these tops. There are a wealth of quilting designs to be found in the fabric and I have always felt comfortable playing with the lush traditional Japanese motifs. I auditioned threads to get the process started. I will probably choose the lightest thread you see. And despite my dislike of changing threads I will likely switch on the ivory, to... ivory. My default thread color choice is almost always the lightest color present in the quilt top. My machine and I love Superior Threads. So Fine 50 wt. thread is what I use for the majority of my long-arm quilting. Studio clean, quilt loaded, now what? You guessed it....Plexiglas. The Plexiglas had a boxy maze drawn on it already, instead of erasing it I laid it down and used it as a starting point. I liked the way it looked over the circle, so I left it and started adding straight line work mixed with a tracing of the Japanese water and flower motifs. Moving the Plexiglas from the quilt top to a white table, gives a different perspective, enabling you to see the quilting design independent of the quilt top. It's a great opportunity to start evaluating how the quilting works or doesn't work compositionally on its own. I like where it's going but the circles need more definition, at this point I decide to get rid of the boxy maze outside of the circle and define the circles with a quarter inch (ish) echo. hmm... it's ok but something isn't quite right. I feel like the density of the quilting in the circles is too heavy. Densely quilted areas are going to recede while the areas that are less densely quilted are going to pop. In this case I would prefer that the background recede not the circles... back to the drawing board so to speak. I leave the boxy maze but change the scale, I do like a quilting design that maintains a similar density throughout. All the straight line work is still too much of the same for me, there is not a strong delineation between background and foreground. I am going to lose the boxy maze and add swirls to the background area to define and simplify the space. I like the feel of where this is going, I think it is starting to work more fluidly with the quilt top. I love working through my designs this way, I am able to see a lot of different ideas come to life without committing to anything. I will continue working out the kinks in this quilting design but I feel more confident in my direction and don't feel like I am just staring at a blank canvas any longer. I hope this gives you some ideas on how to make friends with your Plexiglas. I will leave you with a couple finished Asian panel quilt details, the first quilt is the back of an owl panel, the second and third are Kimono quilts, all pieced by Carlene Embry. Have a wonderful week.
* This PAPER pattern contains templates in full - size, ready to use, so You do not need to enlarge it. This pattern includes full listing of fabrics (even collections name). It contains many diagrams and step-by-step description in English. Diagrams are always warmly welcomed by not-English -speaking Quilters , they are very helpful to follow this project.Finished project : 23" x 29"(58,5cm x 73,5cm)Copyright© 2022 by Malgorzata Joanna Jenek. All rights reserved
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Yankee Notions #2 Schoolhouse by Becky Brown Last month we discussed Yankee Notions about education. Even after the Civil War, notions about free public education continued to divide North and South. Hoople, North Dakota, 1899 From the early days of the United States the federal government granted new states acreage to be sold to fund public schools. Western states responded with thousands of one-room, rural schools that became an American icon. Pieced schoolhouse quilts were quite popular after 1880 or so when the schoolhouse image emphasized education's importance. Many patterns were published in the early 20th century. Ruth Finley, writing in 1929, was not a fan of these figurative designs, calling them "Appealing yet absurd." She viewed the whole idea of pictorial piecing as a milestone on civilization's post-1880 downhill slope. She seems to have been in a pessimistic mood finishing up that book Old Patchwork Quilts. Schoolhouse by Dorry Emmer We, however, find them quite appealing. Album quilt top from Oak Ridge, Missouri, dated 1898 American Museum of Folk Art Collection This top seems obviously a Little Red Schoolhouse but some of the patterns were called cabins or homesteads at a time when nostalgia for the old days of rugged pioneers captured the hearts of Americans---The days of one room schools and log cabins. Snokomo School in Waubunsee County, Kansas, 1930s Quilt embroidered with name "The Old Homestead," online auction. "The Old Schoolhouse" in a crazy quilt dated 1904 Old Log Cabins and Little Red Schoolhouses evoked the past but the one-room school icon also was used to encourage improvements in education at a time when classroom innovations and stricter standards were suggested. The image was two-sided: A view of past virtues and a vision of future improvements. Schoolhouse by Denniele Bohannon How red were the actual rural schoolhouses? Jonathan Zimmerman in his book Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory notes that most one-room schools were white. An 1890 Ohio survey found only 2 of 132 schools were red. Red was a popular color in New England, thus a Georgia woman advocated white paint for a Georgia school, he notes. The Yankee Notion valuing education remains important. In this recent ranking of public schools 4 out of the top five are New England states: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire, & Vermont. Virginia is sixth. States Ranked for their School System Quality, Adam McCann for WalletHub The Block I chose this version (BlockBase #864) as it seems to make for efficient cutting & piecing. However, the model makers did not agree. Becky says: Take just a scosche (how do you spell that word?) off the 1-7/8 strips or your house will be too big for its lot---Zoning problems, I guess. Dorry cut them 1-1/2" wide. Schoolhouse by Dorry Emmer Text on the roof I say: If it's too big cut off the edges and blame the architect. If it's too small add a strip of sky or an addition to the side. As my brother-in-law, the genius carpenter used to say: "You can't see it from the road." And it's a good thing we are not doing a whole subdivision. 12" Block A - Windows.Cut 10 strips 1-7/8" x 4-1/2". B - Walls. Cut 3 strips 1-7/8" x 7-1/8". C - Chimneys. Cut 2 strips 1-7/8" x 2-1/2". D - Sky. Cut 1 strip 3-1/8" x 5-7/8". E - Sky. Cut 2 rectangles 2-1/2" x 3-1/8". F - Gable end. Cut 1 rectangle 3-3/8" x 5". Mark the midpoint along the top and cut a triangle. Or see the templates. G - Rafter. See the templates. Cut 1. H - Roof. See the templates. Cut 1. I - Sky. Cut 1 rectangle 2-3/4" x 3-5/8". Cut in half diagonally for 2 triangles. 18" Block A - Windows. Cut 10 strips 2-1/2" x 6-1/2". B - Walls. Cut 3 strips 2-1/2" x 10-1/2". C - Chimneys. Cut 2 strips 2-1/2" x 4-1/2". D - Sky. Cut 1 strip 4-1/2" x 8-1/2". E - Sky. Cut 2 rectangles 4-1/2" x 3-1/2". F - Gable end. Cut 1 rectangle 4-5/8" x 7". Mark the midpoint along the top and cut a triangle. Or see the templates. G - Rafter. See the templates. Cut 1. H - Roof. Cut 1 strip 4-1/2" x about 13" or 14". See the template for the angle. I - Sky. Cut 1 rectangle 3-3/4" x 5". Cut in half diagonally for 2 triangles. Templates A triangle in an extra strip along the top plus a square---a school bell tower. From Case Antiques in Tennessee, about 1900 February's Tangible Yankee Notion Scissors A good pair of shears has always been an important investment for a seamstress. 18th-c Parisian peddler We can imagine the Yankee peddler might display wares beyond the price range of some of his customers. Like needles and thimbles scissors, a two-bladed tool, go back to antiquity with improvements advertised often in the industrial age: Better metals, better blades, better hinges and more comfortable handles. Queen Victoria's scissors from the BBC To say nothing of added ornament. We take scissors for granted but it's important to remember that a good fabric scissors is expensive. What would quilts look like without them? What if you had only a knife or a very dull scissors? You'd tear your fabrics and right angles would be your options. Album quilt dated 1900 from the Pat L. Nickols collection at the Mingei Museum And here's why scissors look like storks. This may be TMI but the stork scissors were originally clamps used by midwives and then surgical snippers. German scissors made for a midwife Denniele is making an 18" set of blocks. Very graphic. As Sara Farley says: "Go big or go home!"
Black DYB block complete. Progress on the B/C block
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Hello again dear readers.....here's my vintage hearts quilt finally finished....... ........it was made a while ago, and i decided to hand quilt it which was very enjoyable...... .........now it's finished and perfect for autumn.....though this past week we had a mini heatwave here and quilts weren't needed for a few days...... ........i used many favourite scraps for both the patches and the appliqué hearts for this quilt, and chose ones with a vintage feel, or a vintage colour way ........ ..........it was fun to make and now i'm hand quilting my next quilt....will show you that one soon.... ...........a little basket of fabric pumpkins has appeared too ready for autumn...... .........both the pumpkin pattern and the vintage hearts quilt pattern can be found in my etsy shop link in sidebar..... ............my next set of pictures was taken at erdigg (a national trust property)........ .........these wildflower borders are so beautiful and inspiring to me....... ...........and below is another pretty wildflower mini meadow........so gorgeous to see, and we have bought some wildflower seeds ready to try this ourselves next year........ .........during the very hot days this week we had some cooling walks by the sea and here is a picture of some rosehips growing at the cliff edge........the misty view beyond is hard to see but it was sea and sky on a very hot day........ ........thank you for visiting me here and leaving me such kind comments dear blog friends.......hope your september is going well and wishing you happy days and crafty inspirations ..........keep safe lovelies......back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Ja, ik wil wel aan iets nieuws beginnen, ohhh, als dat quilten maar iets sneller zou gaan!! Dus droom ik nu over nieuwe quilts, waar ik ooit..., wanneer Jane en mijn huisjes gequilt zijn, misschien weer tijd voor zal hebben! Ik zag deze quilt op Pinterest langskomen en werd gelijk helemaal blij en gelukkig! Zo zomers, zo schattig met al die verschillende randen, zo helemaal om gelijk aan te beginnen....... Ik moest even uitzoeken waar deze vandaan komt: hier kan je het patroon bestellen! Maar je kan er ook gewoon nog even van dromen!!
