Sunday, January 31, 2010

Grape Arbor 29x49

This is another one of the colorwash bargello quilts that I made after retirement.

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Earth's Bounty 51x61

The 1st year of retirement I made kits from my stash so that I could do some sewing while we traveled around the country…this was one of the bargello quilts that I made from the kits. I made 15 quilt tops that first winter traveling (all lap quilt or wall hanging size)...but didn’t take along any fabric to make borders out of nor took any materials for backing or batting. So that started my UFO list big time. I still have one from that time that I haven’t finished. This one went to friends as a wedding gift. I quilted it in swirls, then quilted a free verse poem in the border. I forgot to write it down and it was impossible to figure out the writing on the front side since it was on printed fabric, so I had to use a mirror and get it from the back.
"When the smell of damp earth brings delight to your senses, knowing winter's frost will soon be upon each plant and all we have left are our memories and plans for next years bounty."

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posted by quilter99755 @ 12:26 AM 0 Comments

Rainforest

This is another of the bargello quilts that I started during our first winter of retirement. I finished it this past year as a wedding gift for friends, Forrest and Sara Gibson. Between the fabrics in the quilt and the ”watery” effect of the border, I can never tell if this is truly out of focus, a little out of focus or if it’s just the quilt itself. I did triple mum quilting on the body of the quilt and then flames/waves in the border. It turned out to be one of my favorites from the “bargello” years.

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Fireweed Summer 50x61

I made this quilt after buying the book Colorwash Bargello. I had lots of floral prints that I bought when I thought that I wanted to do colorwash quilts. When I found out that you cut out a kazillion 2” squares and then put them on a design wall in order to make the quilt I decided to pass. One of the biggest reasons was that my quilting area had no design wall nor a place to put one. When I discovered that you could have a colorwash quilt by strip piecing I was hooked. This one and another were the first of many…and what later made me decide to make up kits for our first year of traveling during retirement. The first one went to a friend for their wedding present and this one I kept.

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