I pieced together my latest quilt yesterday. My idea was to make a gentle quilt. The tan corduroy is a piece of a shirt and I left the pocket, button holes and a loop off the pocket ( I can’t imagine what that might be used for).
I cut up an old torn and stained quilt top that Jon bought for me at Sheldon’s Farm Stand in Salem. The colors were perfect and I putting it next to the flowered piece which has similar colors but is so completely different. From a distance they actually blend. Some of the fabric I’ve had for years, and some I just got last week. The peach is a house coat from the 1950’s. The dark green stip with blue ovals was sent to me from a reader. It’s from a line of Gee’s Bend fabric. The most incongruous piece, above the white rectangle, is a tie. It’s a bit of a stretch color wise (which is why I used it) but the diagonals work well with the piece below it.
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This is beautiful. And yes, gentle. I love seeing hints of fabrics that I have in my own stash in your work.
Do you see similar fabrics Christine? which ones, how intriguing! Just another way to connect.
Hi Maria, This is a sweet quilt. It’s so interesting to hear your particulars on the actual building of the piece.
Such a soothing quilt.
Now…I wonder if someone out there actually knows what that pocket loop was for? A pen? Eyeglasses? I’ve never seen this before in all my years.
So glad you’re enjoying your new chickens!
Apparently Melissa knows, Cindy. And it seems you were right, glasses.
Very nice. 🙂
The loop off the pocket was probably for glasses. I like the tie fabric too.
Ah, I never thought of that Melissa, I couldn’t get carpenter pants and the hammer loop out of my mind. Glasses would be much more comfortable than a hammer.
I love your color combinations Maria. So many interesting stories that quilt has to tell! I like the way you use old fabric. When my husband died I couldn’t bear to throw out all his old flannel shirts. I cut them up and made a lap quilt out of them. When I look at it I can see his hunting shirt, his gardening shirt, his camping shirt . . . each one had a special part in his life. That little quilt has so many memories for me. Thanks for sharing your quilts with us. i always enjoy seeing them.
That’s a beautiful story JoAnne, I can almost picture it. It makes me smile and sad at the same time.
Wow, Maria; I think this is one of your most beautiful quilt to date
“gentle” it is, and perfect way to describe it….. it just makes me sigh, ahhhhhhhh….this is definitely art.
This might be my favorite, yet! It oozes soft peace. Lovely.
Maria, your wonderful quilt work reminds me of some of Margaret Bootsma’s art. She worked in various media, using metals, oils, print. Not all of her work, but some of it. There’s depth to your quilts, layers of story. Anyway, it might just be me but I thought I’d pass this along.
http://www.margarethabootsma.com/archives.html
Thanks Lesley, I’ll check it out.
So subtle and lovely ~ as always, exquisite!