Starting a new quilt I mean 🙂
Yesterday we visited Boonah and a store called Maynards. Not much has changed in this store since it opened in 1944. I browsed through clothing, shoes, men’s clothing, hats, purses and handbags and other such items and then I found the material!!! There were bins of off-cuts and panels. At this point, the GG and the Tween wandered off and left me because they knew they were fighting a losing battle to remove me from the store without purchasing something. I found this off cut and thought it would look great in a scrappy quilt. So I looked for a binding material that would suit it, a couple of fat quarters and some cotton. The rest of the quilt would come from my stash.
Today, I decided to start cutting everything out. I discovered that the large piece of fabric that I had chosen for my background wasn’t quite enough so I’ve had to put in a couple of fat quarters to make up enough squares.
Then I began to cut the pellon I had. Guess what?? I don’t have enough so I have to buy some more. *sigh*
I guess I’m just a sucker for punishment 🙂
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Sucker for punishment?? No, just an artist of textiles and feeling frustration at the moment. You do have a talent that I envy, My grams and I put together by hand many a quilt on her old rack set up in the bedroom. I wish I had paid closer attention, regret it to this day but gave me a great appreciation for those that can put them together, quilters have a special ‘eye’ I believe for placing patterns and colors., Looking forward to seeing the final creation!
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Thank you Len. I’m not so sure it is a special eye. I have chosen all of these fabrics to blend in with the off-cut that I purchased. Hopefully they will all pull together well. 🙂
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You are so very creative Sue and that demands a lot of materials. A very good reason to buying again. Looking forward to see the result.
Irene
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Ha ha…the GG reckons I don’t need a reason 😉
I’m hoping to have it done before my middle child and his wife come to visit. 🙂
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Enjoy!
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Yes very creative, looking forward to seeing it come together:)
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Thank you so much. 🙂 I’m looking forward to that as well 😉
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Brought back good memories of Boonah!
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I can’t believe I’d never been in Maynards before. I’ll definitely be going back there. It’s almost as close as going to Browns Plains so that’s pretty good for me. 🙂
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Gorgeous! I really envy your skills! I would love to learn how to quilt but I wouldn’t even know where to start.
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I didn’t even know myself last year. I have a fantastic teacher who has shown me some basics. Being me, I often race ahead to do things myself and make heaps of mistakes though. 🙂
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A good way to start off the year. Creating something. I need to leave my couch and start on something myself. Thanks for the inspiration to get moving.
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I even cleaned out the fridge yesterday April. It must be those new year vibes 🙂
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I appreciate your creativity. I plan to search out my creative genes this year too. There’s not many of them, so we’ll see what happens. 🙂
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We all have creative genes in there somewhere. I look forward to seeing yours 🙂
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Don’t you just hate to get those creative juices flowing then have to stop? Happens to the best of us! My daughter and I put together the quilt top for the new baby while I was visiting last week. I left it with her to finish. Hope she can find the time with 3 young ones now. 🙂 You will get yours going soon I’m sure!
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It’s a little annoying. 🙂
I had to substitute the fat quarters into the backing fabric because the fabric I had was a one-off purchase from a garage sale (yard sale). There was no way I can purchase more of that.
I can still do some work on the quilt but need to get the pellon to finish it.
Your quilt sounds wonderful. I hope she can finish it also. 🙂
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Look at you gooooooooooooo…..
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Thank you CJ. Did you ever get my emails about the Fellow Blogger thing?
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no
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