^^found this quilt online some time ago^^
And was looking for another charity quilt to work on, and thought it would be nice to take this quilt and simplify it for making a baby quilt. I usually do not use too much black in my work, but I chose a piece of very dark fabric I thought was black, but in the light it takes on an indigo, well a bit darker than indigo look, but not quite charcoal, and as I work colors into it, it appears black. I have to admit that yesterday, I went looking for a blue as beautiful as the one above, but couldn't find that exact color except a close solid but not one with lights and darks like the above one, which could be flower petals all tossed together. Anyhow, I did some measuring and looking at that quilt, and remembered that I had a tub full of 2.5" cotton quilt fabric cuts the width of materials, with the hopes that I'd quit doing logs and go for a 9-patch fling. Never happened. OK once I did a 9-patch, maybe twice, but it just doesn't light my fire the way working log cabin blocks does. But I like to do something like the above anyhow, so in the next frame, I will show how I arranged the lady's blocks. Oh, and I threw in a dark middle from 2" cuts for the centers, and the blocks had to be cut 6 inches after I measured the width of the 3-block. I did 7 wide squares and 7 rows of the 11 rows I will be making for a small child or senior quilt. If a senior gets it they will be amused to see little prints of stuffed animals and toys and stuff. <giggle>
My "parts are below in thumbnails as I sliced and diced the picture all up to get an idea what a smaller quilt could be (using edit in pictures):
This last picture just shows I made the quilt smaller, but when I made such large squares, to make them toddler child sized or wheelchair, you have to downsize, and I didn't want them wider than say, 42" with border. I'll be fortunate to achieve that and will have to cut way down on the beautiful, elaborate border the unknown maker constructed to make her amazing quilt. Mine's not quite as breath taking, but I'm not even done with the middle. I have four more rows to make it 7 blocks by 11 blocks, and have the blocks all done, I just got tired after working the morning away, oh, and I forgot to eat and drink anything today.
I think I worked about 10 hours, and I really stuck to it. I tried to leave, but it was like I had to cut this strip, and while at it, sew 3 more blocks, etc. etc. etc. Sometimes I'm just glued to the sewing chair seat.
