Friday, the 17th of July, I put the final stitches in the feedsack quilt. From then on it was sitting patiently on my sofa, waiting for a photo time. But... with all the rain ... even predicted through all of next week ... I thought it might be quite a while before an opportunity might happen.
Surprise! When I brought my coffee cup to the coffee table and sat down with the morning paper, that quilt began nudging me and saying, Look! The sun is peeking out! You promised I could go to the park for a picture." Well, at least it let me finish my coffee before grabbing the stepladder and my camera and going off to the park.
Actually, it took a bit of walking to find a piece of fence that was tall enough and had the light coming from the right direction. This was my first time to try this section of the fence and it wasn't tall enough to take the picture with the quilt straight up. On the other hand, the fence was not all bent from kids kicking balls at it and the trees were not blocking the sun.
The direct sun doesn't show off the quilting much. I tried to keep it at a minimum as the center blocks are just quilted in the ditch plus a diamond shape in the center of the four inch feedsack prints.
I did not applique the yoyos, but tacked them down near the edges so things would not get caught on them as they might with a button.
Rain is predicted for most of next week so I may get to cuddle under this before the sauna weather sets in. For now, I'm glad it got its day in the sun.
This morning, the sayonara banner went of to its new family. I was not at the early service to see it go, but I was sent a photo of the smiling family.
Yesterday I began chopping logs to build a cabin, and with the silkworms off the coffee table, I laid out the coronaville houses to get an idea of how to put them together. It is looking more and more as if this down time is going to last long enough to make another bed cover... and those houses are only three by four inches! Ah well, tomorrow is another day.... If I need time to think, I am covered.
You must be very pleased with this. The border and yoyos (here known as Suffolk Puffs) finish it off beautifully. Lovely to snuggle under and see all the different fabrics and combinations.
ReplyDeleteJulie, it is such a beautiful quilt! The border is so special! Love the butterflies in the corner. The whole thing is so colorful and balanced. I need to look around here for a place to photograph quilts!
ReplyDeleteI long for you to have some cool days and nights and enjoy this beauty. It is a glorious quilt, and rightly so as it spoke and maybe whispered gently, "come, let us walk together". Yes, lockdown has been and gone down here, everyone flying home has to have 14 days of isolation and two covid tests, if one is positive they are then put into a quarantine facility.Australia is shutting state borders, this is the new normal way of life. Stay safe Julie, I had a covid test after a cough, sore throat and mildly high temperature., It was not nice, but necessary, and a huge relief after 28 hours to get a phone call to say it was negative. Hugs from NZ, cool mornings, a sunny day now and then, and the fire for warmth and comfort.XXX
ReplyDeleteYour Feedsack Quilt is another masterpiece! And all by hand - simply amazing! - ;))
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely GORGEOUS, Julie ! You are THE BEST :) Congratulations !
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xoxoxo
Nadine
Just breathtaking.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beauty! And large in size. Good that you found a fence high enough to display it and a sunny enough day to take the photo. Hopefully in the near future the rainy season will be over, alas, then starts the swelteringly hot season instead.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to your log cabin building. What hearth will you put inside?
You take some tiny scraps, add your time and skill, and end up with something stunning. This quilt is so beautiful; I love it!
ReplyDeleteIt will be a good memory of the "old days" and also of this year of so much time spent at home on lockdown.
DeleteHi Julie, beautiful quilt. Your comment about the silkworms having been moved off the table, jogged a memory. Now-a-days, the local foreign language TV station, KIKU, is trying to fill the schedule with "oldies" . Don't know if you have ever been a devotee of samurai TV. This one is "lone wolf and carriage"--very oldie! There is a vendetta going on between the ronin and the famous Yagyu family. Amazingly, the solution to readying a secret Yagyu secret letter is silkworms! Apparently, applied to the letter, they munch off, leaving a message. Amused me. Hope it does you. : )
ReplyDeleteI only raise the silkworms each year to use in teaching kids how important it is to live in nature, especially these days when everyone is becoming more and more dependant on devices. These critters have been tended by humans for so many centuries that they can't survive in nature for even a week.
DeleteJulie I started following you today....don't ask me why it has taken so long. Back in February 2011 when I first began my own blog you were one of the first to welcome me (thanks to my Sister, Irene). She often speaks so highly of you and your quilt work. I went back and looked at when you first got the fabric for your feed sack quilt and am so humbled at how you rescued this vintage fabric and gave it new life.
ReplyDeleteThe colors are so beautiful!!! It is such a wonderfully cheery quilt with all the flowers and vines around the border! Such a great job and as always it seemed to get done so quickly. Yes, it looks like we are going to have a lot of sewing time ahead of us all this summer...
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful finish. I am so pleased you had the chance for a photo in the sunshine. It is an uplifting quilt with all the cheerful colours and stars.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely quilt! I'd want to cuddle up under it, too.
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