Finishing
Joyce's quilt was such a big deal for me. I wanted to take it easy for a bit.
I did not want to start anything new. But a quick finish will be oh so good. So, I picked up the pink (not UFO) blocks that I mentioned
here.
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| Beginning Blocks |
There were a total of 81 blocks. I could arrange them 9 by 9, add a border and have a quilt top in no time. Nothing wrong with that.
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| Initial Layout |
But how about I add a little something more to it. Like a few solids. These pink and purple solids were screaming to be used. I agreed to give them a purposeful life.
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| Solids to add a bit of Oomph! |
I added a strip of solid color to each block so that each block went from 4.5" square to a 4.5" by 6.5" rectangle. I fiddled with the arrangement and chose this one.
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| Final Layout |
Once again, as I was piecing the quilt top, I wondered - what shall we call this one? It has a lot of pink. It is very floral too. Bet, it reminds you of spring.
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| Fresh Snow on top of Stale Snow |
But then, when you are in the dead of winter with 6 inches of snow that melts only slightly to refreeze into ice, just about everything reminds you of spring.
Does it not?
No, I did not want to give it a spring time name.
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| Spring Tease??? |
Pink, like blush.
Blush...
And then, I had this aha moment. I remembered a scene from the movie - Steel Magnolias, where Shelby describes her wedding colors. "Pink is my signature color", she says. Her wedding colors were "Blush and Bashful"
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| Paul, the Model :-) |
That is it. I decided to call this quilt - Blush and Bashful. I chose this chocolate and pink dotty fabric for the backing.
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| Backing |
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| Bright Pink Border |
The finished quilt measures about 40" by 58". I used Warm & Natural Batting. As usual, the binding was done using the super quick - stitch to the back, bring to the front and stitch down using the squiggly stitch!
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| All done |
A quick finish is so gratifying. I hope it will make some little girl very happy.
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| Quilt #4 for 2015 |
This is Quilt#4 for 2015. Looks like it is going to be a great year!!!
How is 2015 going for you?
