2020 quilt design which I submitted to the guild for the 2020 show:
Along with a picture of a pile of fabric:
Actual 2020 quilt (top):
I mean, it turned out pretty well, right? But, uh, I did get an email (or was it a phonecall) from someone on the committee checking if I'd intended to send them those photos.
Frankly, I'm kind of surprised they still let me play after that!
That said, this year, I sent actual photos of actual quilt tops (or, at lest, quilt blocks) to give an impression of what I was going to make:
It's actually a warmer, more goldeny colour than the picture makes it seem. More pink, too. The pattern is the ridiculously basic "Dead Simple" quilt top which I've made a dozen times if I've made it once. It's such a great quilt for fat quarters, or using up scraps, or just trying to make a quick-and-"dirty" quilt. A little more complex than just 5" patches all round, I add a thin border in a contrasting solid, and then a 2.5" border in the same fabrics as the quilt centre. It comes out a treat every time!
This one is going to be GREAT for emptying my scrapbox, because you can pretty much shove ANYTHING YOU WANT into it and it still manages to look pretty good.
I have to try it in a fabric line - maybe one of the Kate Spain ones - they were always tricky with the lights vs the darks, some things which had REALLY HEAVY patterns and others which had very delicate ones and I never quite knew how to put them together.
I've been saying I should get some curtains on the front windows for, oh, TEN YEARS now. This might be it.
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Other than that, I shorted the sleeves of my Oodie and am trying to make house booties out of the cut-offs (6 inches of extra sleeve - I don't know if I just ordered the larger size instead of the smaller one - I thought there was only one size, but apparently there's at least two - but I've been swimming in it for about three years now. Nice to have a little more leeway.
Sometime I'll have to post about my grandmother's furs.
