Lindsay and Matt's Wedding Quilt |
A Black and Tan Challenge |
Black and tan are Linsday and Matt's favorite colors. I found this a bit of a challenge as I like to work with bright colors and florals. |
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This is the pattern in Fons and Porters For the Love of Quilting Magazine that I used for the quilt. Notice it is in black and tan. It helped, since I don't think in these colors. The pattern was in the Jan/Feb '06 issue. I didn't do any of the applique and decided to substitute a striped fabric instead. |
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Fabrics for the quilt came from quilt stores in Kalamazoo and Lansing MI, Shipshewana, IN, and from online stores in Florida, Colorado, and California. I purchased most of the fabrics during Jan '06, plus pulled several from my stash. I started the quilt at a quilt retreat weekend Feb 3rd through 5th in Howell, MI with my friend Deb, who is a member of Causual Quilters Quilt Guild. Very nice ladies, excellent quilters, and marvelous cooks! |
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The first quilt block - this took the entire retreat week-end to make. The block contains 16 half triangle squares (finished size of 1.25 inches). At the retreat, I made 272 half triangle squares using Thangles®, then had to make a block to save my sanity. The quilt contains 480 half-triangle squares. I don't know what I was thinking. | |
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This is black cat Winnie (age: 15), sitting on the completed quilt top. The quilt top uses 21 different fabrics. Winnie is also known as Mom Cat (to Wimsey, below), The Hurler, and Lap Fungus. She supervised the making of the quilt by sitting on my shoulder and purring in my ear as I pieced it together. |
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This is black cat Wimsey (age 14), sitting on the quilt top. The quilt is folded in half. It isn't very big - 60 by 66 inches, basically because I would have gone mental sewing any more half-triangle squares. You can see one of the backing fabrics better here. | |
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This is a close-up of one of the borders of the quilt. Notice most to the points match. Those Thangles® really work. | |
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This is one of the backing fabrics. The other is a Lonnie Rossi typographics fabric. I was really tempted to put a really colorful print or the cowboy hunks on the back, but stuck with black and tan. | |
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