Got that green quilt done. It doesn't look like anything above, and it's tiny enough to be a hugs quilt, probably about 28x40". It's just real simple, with a large bright green-green center and cute everything-but-the-kitchen-sink diverse prints in a green thema, surrounded by the same green-green on the first border and a beautiful pastel cheerful circular florals that would blend right in with a pastel nursery. It's kind of dispersively patterned, but the differences in visual texture of the samo-samo squares seem conversational without the speech, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, it was fun and it's forming the base of the stack for the next 9 small hugs quilts for charity.
This is as close as I could come--big centers, 12 blocks 3x4, but mine is all greens, no blue. The quilt below, which I just found online uses 5 prints only, but the inner border is the same as the center, but no print outside the center is used more than once in the squares. I used 49 different fabrics, the one below 5. Even so, the total greens were fun to use and place here and there, and while I would love to use the one below, I have 2 objectives this month--to use some of the cheater quilt fabric I have accumulated, and in particular the animal life ones--birds, butterflies, cats, etc. One other similarity in this quilt and mine is the fields and furrows alignment of the 12 squares (diagonal row appearance). She used darker blues and in-your-face beautiful limes. I used light limes with diversity here and there, and very dark greens, alternating with some loden greens and deep dark shadowy sprucy greens to contrast with the green-green centers. I can't believe, however that I found a quilt with that many similarities to the one I actually finished that looks so different due to a closer to anachromatic, whereas the one below is quite bicolor.
I have a weird discipline. If I started another series of log cabin quilts, I'd make more quilts, but I'd spend a year making 100 quilts, which would contribute to my already atrocious housekeeping due to focusing on charity to the small babies in our community who are born into poverty of fatherless families, quite often, or student parents who have to scrimp, save, miss a semester here and there to fund each other, with only minimum wage jobs most likely. Bless the ones who keep carrying babies and having them. They're our nation's future, and they will have a life of hard work in the 20 years ahead until their little ones can fend for themselves as adults. That's why I pray over each and every quilt and for its recipient. Their parents need devotion to their children, determination to be parents to that or those children they make, and loyalty to each other for life. Lucky me, in spite of hardships, my parents were true to each other for life. And I was the second born and will likely outlive all the others in spite of my allergy issues, which I now control with diet and supplements that help that cause, based on studies of that particular nutrient that prove true to fight ordinary life-enders--such as cancer, COPD, RA (arthritis that is near unbearable) and tummy troubles that can be checked by an ordinary age-appropriate vitamin taken daily at the start of each day. Oh, that's so irrelevant to quilting, except to hope I can use up all that fabric in my house, of which I have enough to last for 30 years if I make 10 quilts a month which is 30x10x12 = whatever. Ok, I'll do the math: 3,600 quilts. (huff, puff, huff puff!) That means I have to take care of the eyes for vision, exercise to keep able, and vitamins that support immunity and life itself. Sewing quilts is very sedentery, so you have to take a walk and stretch for about a half hour a day at least. And I have to stay healthy past the age of 100 to do this. Plus, I won't have a boyfriend, because who would put up with a wife with a messy house, determination to spend 4 or 5 hours a day in front of the cutting table, sewing machine, etc? lol
Here's a toast to green quilts and not thinking about how nice it would be to have a caring man around the house who'd put up with my jazz:
