It is tax season. Gathering the documents, filling out the forms, checking and rechecking, and finally filing the return killed two precious weekends. No sewing, no quilting, and absolutely no blogging happened.
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| Original Scraps |
Taxes are now done and that is a relief. I am back to quilting and blogging while I wait for the refund!!!It is a tiny amount but it is that unexpected aspect of it that makes it so yummy.
Yes, that is why I do the taxes - so that I can claim the refund. Paul agrees. If I do the taxes, I get to keep the refund!!!
Thinking of the refund as the scraps left over after you've made the quilt, takes out some of the sting associated with taxes. Scraps, like the refund, are a little bit like that unexpected bonus.
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| Yumminess!!! |
A few months ago, I received some scrappy goodness from a quilter friend. I picked out a few of those scraps, added white yardage and arranged the rectangles into a window-pane shape. I wanted all four panes to be different to create some visual interest!
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| Layout |
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| Top Left |
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| Top Right |
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| Bottom Left |
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| Bottom Right |
The batting is Warm & Natural. For Backing, I used a pretty purple striped fabric with pops of yellow, red and green that just matched perfectly.
Quilted with my walking foot - straight lines in the white part and slightly curvy in the window portion. I think it conveys the effect of rain falling on the windowpane - rainwater running into rivulets on the glass. The variegated blue thread came from Connecting Threads and I love it.
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| Quilted!!! |
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| Rain on the Pane... |
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| Variegated Blue Thread :-) |
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| Quilting Detail |
The binding is a lighter/brighter shade of purple. Stitched to the quilt back, brought to the front and stitched in place using my favorite squiggly stitch.
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| Matched!!! |
The finished quilt measures 40" by 42". And here is the label...
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| Label |
Few more pictures
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| Back with Label |
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| Sunny & Rippled |
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| Slanted Angle - just because... |
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| Whispering Window |
This quilt was not on my to-do list. I saw the scraps, I asked for them and just played with them. See the result? Well, I am very happy with this little gem of a quilt. I guess amazing and magical things can happen when we dare to go off the script and live spontaneously.
Do you agree?
