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The Quilt Top

My sweet little rescue dog died last night.  She captivated everyone, and now she is gone.  I can’t even think about this so I am trying to stay busy.

I put the border on my quilt top and it is ready to go.   I talked about the quilt last week here.   The colors are so pretty and I love the designs on the fabrics .    All of the fabric came from fat quarters — most purchased at the Virginia Highlands Quilt Shop.  Kim, the owner, is wonderful.  In the picture below, there are lots of flowers, but I also see some red shoes, lemon slices and sheet music.   There’s also a cat sleeping by the quilt.

Let’s see what is on this side of the quilt top…the bright blue has beach flip flops, there are orange cats, and there is some Alice in Wonderland fabric.

Here’s another…lots of flowers, some cursive writing, more flip flops…this time on white…and peppermint candy.

And finally…there’s that sheet music again, some gold and black butterflies and lots of flowers.  Everything is bound by by the back and white border.  I believe that the fabric did not repeat more than once.   That was my goal.  Some fabric did not repeat at all.

I’ve pressed the quilt and folded it along with the backing (paw prints) and the black and white stripe which will bind the quilt.  It is ready to go to the quilter.  This will be machined quilted by a long-arm quilter.

This was on my list of something I wanted to do.   I’ve checked it off.  It will be January/February 2019 when I get the completed quilt back.

I will put this in the RiverCliff Cottage AirB&B.   It will be durable and I think guests might enjoy looking at the different fabrics.  I hope so anyway.

I’ve been looking at blogs that are for retirees.  Most are centered on the finances of retiring.  So few are centered on the living of being retired.  As I am retired, I want to be productive and I want to see the results of my efforts.  This quilt is a good example of something I did not have the time for when I was working.   Now, I do.  And I’ll have a pretty quilt!!

 

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The Quilt of Many Colors

Last winter I started making a quilt top. I love old, scrappy quilts where nothing matches. Mine is not old and scrappy, but very little matches on it. A friend on Facebook suggested naming it “The Quilt of Many Colors.” I liked that name and that is what I call this quilt top. Here it is…

What I”m working on today is a 5″ border of a small black print that will go all the way around the quilt. I’ve laid the fabric beside the quilt.

Finally, the quilt will be edged in a black and white stripe fabric…

So the whole thing will look something like this..

And the best thing yet, is that this quilt will be backed in this fabric…

I’ve tried making a quilt top before with little success. There are some really good quilters in Mendota, and I am intimated by them. I saw my cousin, Alisa Lamb, put together one of these quilts with triangles sewn together for her daughter, and I thought..”I can do that!” So..I did. I’m also going to sew the 5″ border on it, but that’s it for me. I’ll be taking it to someone to do the actual quilting, put that cute dog backing on it, and to add the striped binding.

After this, I’ve gained even more respect for quilters who do the whole thing.

I rent our guest house as an AirB&B, so this quilt will go in that space. With white Euro shams, white bed ruffle, white pillow shames, it should work pretty well.

Best of all, I finally made a quilt top!

Update! So after I wrote this I planned to just whip out the machine and sew the borders on the quilt top. But no…wait! Because I have the attention of a gnat, I sewed the right side on the wrong side of the quilt. Here’s what it looks like and I”ll be spending the evening seam ripping.

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