art and soul: In The Works

You know. It's all the stuff you work on when you should probably be out there being responsible and sweeping off the patio, or washing the car or whatever else.

Jane-ish sampler - b. 2018?

I got it into my head to make a quilt similar to the one that Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra made, that's on display at the Jane Austen museum in Chawton. Someone in the fabric industry also had the same brilliant idea because fabric panels of the quilt, as well as fat quarters and yardage are coming out August 2020. All of my fabrics were from scraps of yardage used to recreate 18th century garments; some of them are reproductions from Burnley and Trowbridge. Some of them are not terribly accurate but my friends were being generous in going through their stashes so that none of the patches would repeat.

This one doesn't have a name - I purchased the panel (right) at a quilt show in Monroeville (2012?13?), I think, with the intention that I would use it to practice machine quilting. I got the border after returning to the Erie area (post 2015) and had tried to machine quilt it on my domestic machine, which didn't end well. It had a very low loft bamboo batting, and I wish I could find more, it had such lovely drape and weight. Between never being happy with the quilting and the color of the border, I deconstructed it during quarantine, purchased new border fabric, and I just found the perfect back for it in a shot cotton by Pepper Cory - I guess the quilt industry has begun referring to this kind of fabric as a Peppered Cotton? Shot cotton, Peppered cotton, they refer to the same thing. I think the color of the fabric is called key lime? I have some yarn the same color, and they called it scorched lime.

Mitered squares
11/2018

Exclusively wool

Cathedral Windows Rag
b. 8/2017

Japonaisma Bunnies
b. 8/2017

Firecracker
b. 7/2017

Rockets Red Glare
b.2010

3 Tours
b. 7/2017

Orange Marmalade

there is no relevant post about this. oops.

Tops done but not already sandwiched

Rhythm and Blues

This was in a quilt magazine... I can't remember which. Glad to use up some of the fabrics I already had stashed away. It would be ready to quilt, except that I lost one of the border strips.

Cheerful Child

This was supposed to be a gift for someone. I even took machine quilting lessons to help expedite the completion process, and then I learned that I had evening classes the week I scheduled to quilt the top, so I had to cancel. And then when I approached having some free time, I ended up with a migraine headache for the rest of the summer [26 days in a row], and when we finally got it to break, school started, so there was no cashing in, so to speak, on the lessons. I may just have to send it out to have it finished by someone else if I ever want it done.

Granny Squares, no priority

This one had a tumultuous piecing, but it's finally finished, and waiting it's turn to be quilted.

1930's Blue and White

I picked this top up somewhere for $5 and added the blue borders on the side, because there was no way I was going to be able to replicate the patches in the quilt with fabric I had on hand.

Autobiographical Sampler

I got the idea to make this from a quilt magazine that I've since lost. I think this is the second quilt I ever attempted, after moving on from a straight lines charm quilt. Nothing I made from this is the same size, so there was quite a bit of monkeying to get it all to fit together; in fact, when I photographed it, I found a few more places that need some attention