A few yellow quilts I collected from others online who make quilts and tops...
Oh, my goodness. This quilt followed me to the sewing room, but all I had precut 2.5" were greens, so I went fornot the gold, but the green! lol And while I was sewing gree, I thought how lovely it would be if March and April would come sooner, so I could indulge in the beautiful spring Texas roadside flowers like bluebonnets, paintbrushes, etc., so after I finished piecing the green squares in the center, instead of using a white white, I found this absolutely yummy white background with roadside flowers we see--paintbrushes, bluebonnets, daisies, bluebonnets, and bluebonnets, and bluebonnets...
Ok, really there was a balance of all kinds of pretty bloomers, so the print was huge, so I cut huge strips! and by the time I got that done, well, there was another print that dominated with green and paintbrushes, pink lupines, bluebonnets, daisies, and bluebonnets...so by the time I got that piece around, it was more than big enough, but nope, I had already cut 5 pieces of dark green and darker green stripes for a lovely border, then added more regular green after that. It took an evening to put the squares together, and the next morning to do the borders before I went to the doctors for asthma treatment. She also noticed I wasbearing ldls and high cholesterol out the wazoo, and I'm allergic to all commercially available cholesterol-lowering drugs. Don't know why, so if I kick the can, they'll find me sleeping by the sewing machine, fabrics stacked everywhere...5 or 6 months later. I'm pretty shy, and only travel to the quilt store that hosts our guild's charity bees where I try to deliver as many quilts as I make in a month. I noticed they had basted and put batting in November's lot of 10 quilts, but the blue ones delivered early in January were still neatly folded for people to pick up and baste, or take the already-basted ones to quilt. I did 30 quilts in 4 months, and it looks like a dozen at least of that 3 groups were either done or went home with guild members at the last meeting. Sometimes they don't have enough quilters, but there are about 120 members in our guild, so hopefully a few of them will take pity on the little ones and do the quilting since I cannot without severe cramping and issues of advanced age.
The green quilt looks so lovely to me. I hope whoever gets to quilt that one gets a premonition of how beautiful I hope its going to be this year when the bluebonnets are in full blues and to die for. *sigh*
Oh, the center is 8x8 or about sixteen inches square, and mine turned out to be about 9 by 14, or eighteen by 28 inches, and about 1 out of 6 or 7 squares were zoo animals from a green background child's print that was just too cute. Whoever made those animals sure made them happy-looking, which is what children love. And sometimes you let the fabric talk. The only challenge I really had was to make the animals with heads directionally as if you were looking the animal straight on, head at top, feet at the ground. And both flower prints were one-ways, too, meaning they had stems that came from below to rise to the end of the stem that had a flower on top. For some reason, the flowers didn't have to be resewn, except once I started and had the wrong side up, so I only had to rip out half a seam due to sleeping at the wheel while piecing the quilt together.
That yellow quilt with the squares. I just gotta cut some 2.5" yellow squares and put them somewhere and make a little quilt center with them. Not sure what to do around the outside, except I found this terrific yellow fabric with red floralesque butterflies on it that's really a dynamite piece of fabric. I guess I could always piano-key a red border.
Well all I found was this yellow quilt with green 9-patches, but *green piano key outside border!*
Goodness, I already have squares the right size for those 9-patch green squares, yellow bright fabric for outside the squares, and somewhere I have a lot of green 1.5" strips to more than make a border like the one above (we call it piano keys) in quilting.
She died of an anurism broughton by chemicals in her cigarettes, not a house fire. Cigarettes can be a curse to a long enough life to see your kids graduate from high school. By the time she cut down her 3 packs a day down to 1 a day, her aneurism had already been diagnosed and burst the day she went swimming in the pool dad had built, and the pressure assisted its burst. She passed 3 days later in a small neighborhood hospital, but would have been a vegetable had she survived back in 1973 when they had no cure except prevention, which she refused due to her 30-year habit.
