I am having so much fun with my latest project. I was getting bored with making the log cabin blocks out of the shop fabrics that are on sale, so I sat that project aside and went to the basement to find something new to work on.
What I brought upstairs was a plastic container with 2 yards of a dark (blue) green fabric. A couple of hunks of red with spriggy leaves and some fabric that was red and green preprint log cabin blocks. The log cabin fabric had been cut into 17 squares matching the design with each square having 4 log cabin blocks. Each equaled 11 inches square. Well, I would like to say they were square but they were lopsided, of course, just like any preprinted fabric, it had been stretched funny in the printing.
I should have taken a picture at this point but I didn't.
Now, I will let the pictures I did take, speak for themselves.
But it wasn't long enough! I had a strip of blocks that had been next to the salvage. So new top and bottom borders were born!
Next came the applique, something needed to be put on those BIG RED SQUARES! I'm working on that part right now. Besides the hearts in the blocks I am going to add them in the corners of the quilt. Something to help fill up the corners.
And here is what the log cabin blocks look like close up. It really makes you wonder when and why I bought this fabric. It must have been years ago, my taste in fabric has changed.
So that brings me back to the question of what kind of a quilter am I?
I have had so much fun making something out of a little bit of nothing. Like seeing if I can make a "silk purse out of a sow's ear". No, the quilt definitely is not any kind of silk purse/show winner, but it has been a fun journey to make something that is sorta' pretty and very useful.
And to think you are doing applique! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteI had to do something to those big red spaces!
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