This smallish, 44X38, one block quilt in Marian Rosenthal style was a spur of the moment impulse. I had the fabric [border is the original] for maybe three years having purchased it when a shop in the NYC garment district was going out of business and thinking at the time that it might be a stack-n-whack style quilt. It actually shows up more interestingly in the photo than it does when I'm closer to it. I've called it "Flower arranging". It's lying on my dining table, which is small and which it just covers. I am currently still enchanted with Marian Rosenthal's one-patch, kaleidoscope possibilities with various sorts of prints.
It's now quilted and bordered and even named so I'll get on with other in-process quilts of which there are only two. And I've just decided the bigger project I want to do next, something I thought I couldn't do until I had a design wall. Now I have a design wall and reading the directions more carefully than before, I realize I could have done it anyway. But this is the right time. More anon, it's from a book that was a gift to me in 1999 so it's not "up to the minute". Not a matter of concern to me anyway.
6 comments :
So charming!
What a pretty quilt. It reminds me of the "Tree of Life" block printed cottons from India. Had you appliqued the blue border on the shaped sides?
No, Nellie, I did not applique, I did Y seams -- as I did through the middle section -- the only thing I hate about this method and if I felt I had the time, I would do them all by hand but I'm too impatient and want to get on with other things, so do them by machine, slowly.
I think, Kass, "Charming" is exactly why I feel ambivalent about this quilt. It's not an adjective I use much.
What can I say my friend. I just love it all. What adjective would you use June?
What an accomplishment. You can be proud of it's unique construction. It's a beauty.
Well, Dy, I've always thought charming referred to something sweeter and a bit nicer than I am. In terms of quilts, I'd prefer fun, imaginative, contempory or, if I get carried away, awesome, gorgeous, fantastic ... but I don't get carried away very often and those latter adjectives are unlike to be appropriate. No flattery, just honesty, please.
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