The next quilt I made was for Rachel and Rollin. I actually worked on this one at the same time as Jared and Yvonne's so I had to keep track of what I was doing on each quilt. For R&R I picked out greens and blues. I picked 5 greens and 5 blues and paired them in every combination possible to get 25 blocks. I picked a white sashing because I envisioned bold whiteness in their quilt. The border struck me the first day I was picking out fabrics and I love the kissing birds on it. Like Jared and Yvonne's quilt I order a special quilt backing fabric so it was all one big piece.
The weekend I went to my parents' to quilt I was literally going crazy because I spent hours on the machine envisioning the pattern for both quilts. I would close my eyes and picture myself quilting. It was fun (and intense) to do 2 quilts in one evening and 2 very long days. I don't know if I'll ever do that much at once again. Anyway for their quilt I did a white thread on the top and a very light blue on the bottom. Here are some pictures...
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Full quilt. You can see the blocks go from the darkest pairing on
the upper left to the lightest pairing on the bottom right. |
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| Close up |
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| Here's one you can see the back on |
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