FITF: Film in the Fridge | modern quilts, clothing, fabric, and photos

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Web Name: FITF: Film in the Fridge | modern quilts, clothing, fabric, and photos

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Well hello! It s funny how you can stop blogging for a few days and then suddenly find that it s been months or a year or more! You know what though, I still love having this record of my projects online, so I m going to attempt to be better about posting them here. This quilt came about suddenly I hadn t had much motivation to do any quilting possibly due to too much mask-making all summer, or perhaps just feeling burnt out and unmotivated. I kind of missed it though, and kept trying to find some easy way to ease back into it. One day I remembered all the bags of solid scraps I found stored in the basement. I decided to challenge myself to create something, anything!, out of them. After pulling them all out, I realized that most were longish strips, so I just started piecing them into pairs. Then I pieced those pairs together. I found that many were long enough to allow me to trim them down into large 16 blocks. And when I came up short, I just pieced in extra solids.Since it was basically just piecing strips together, these blocks came together quite quickly and it made for a very satisfying project!For the backing, I found several yards of this old Amy Butler print I had been hoarding, and it seemed perfect. I always love having the chance to actually use something I ve been holding onto for so long!I quilted it with double straight lines on the diagonal, and bound it in a dark solid I had on hand. I can honestly say it felt good to make something again. Hopefully this will be what I need to feel like starting another project sometimes that s all it takes, right? Happy Friday! Today I finally have photos of this finished quilt! I loved this one from the start, but I must say, quilting has really changed it for the better. You may remember when I posted about this quilt top (here, if you d like to take a look). It s made out of fabrics from the Outback Wife collection by Cathi of gertrudemade. These fabrics are inspired by vintage barkcloths and have such a wonderful texture. The fabric base is heavier than typical quilting cotton, so I knew from the start that this was one I wasn t going to want to attempt to quilt on my own. I ve had Rachel of Stitched in Color long arm quilt a couple of my other quilts, so when she announced that she was moving with her family overseas and had a couple spaces left for long arm quilting, I jumped at the chance to have her work on this one. Once again, I let her take a look at the quilt top and give me her suggestion on a quilting pattern to complement, and once again, she nailed it with her first suggestion! This is crystal ball, quilted vertically, and I just love the way it looks on this quilt. I m sad that I won t be able to send any other quilts Rachel s way, but luckily for those in Europe, she will soon be accepting quilts again. You can sign up to be notified when quilting services will be available. I added an olive green solid for binding and ta da! It feels good to have this one finished! Thanks to Rachel for making that happen!I ve been wanting to show you this quilt for some time now! Finally the grass turned green and I was able to snap a few quick photos. You all know I can t resist me some Heather Ross, so of course I had to buy some of her new line, Trixie. I m a total sucker for those strawberries! At the same time, I had purchased a vintage quilt on ebay with this kind of diamond shape, so I thought it would be fun to do my take on that vintage quilt. These diamonds are larger than those in the vintage quilt I purchased, but similar in shape, in that the sides are not all the same length (does that make it a parallelogram rather than a rhombus?) I had my fingers crossed that I d actually be able to sew these together and have it all line up, so I was pleasantly surprised that it went together quite easily! At the last minute I decided to add to it to make it queen sized I think it ll make a perfect bed quilt for Hazel! Receive Film in the Fridge post updates in your inbox by entering your email address below:Delivered by FeedBurner

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