This is late, I know, but perhaps a few others will come in
late too! I started to call this quilt
“Michigan Memories.” The fabrics in the
collage are scraps from a queen-sized quilt I made for our new summer home—an
apartment in our Michigan family’s new home, which was finished last
September. This is the first summer
we’ve spent three months here and away from Waco.
I had zero ideas for this quilt, but then Andrea suggested a
torn fabric collage, using the few fabrics I happened to have here. (I am really missing my big stash!) I had such a busy weekend with many baseball
games to attend that I had no time to act on Andrea’s great idea. Then yesterday was packed, too, so I just
about gave up on the idea of making a quilt this time.
BUT…several others I am expecting haven’t yet been posted,
so I thought that today I’d give it a try.
I tore some of the scraps into strips, applied Wonder Under fusible on
the back of the strips and then laid them out on a piece of batting. When all were arranged to my satisfaction, I
fused them down, then trimmed to the 12X12 size. I used a blue and yellow quilt block from a
Guild project, one I wasn’t crazy about ,for the backing. Top-stitching the strips down sufficed for
the quilting. I used the same fabric for
the binding that I used for the queen quilt, my favorite fabric, actually, that
also appears in the collage.
Maybe you’d like to see the queen quilt that provided these
scraps, so I’ll post a photo of it here, as well as a few others.
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| The queen-sized quilt in our bedroom. I used a myriad of blue and yellow fabrics, some of which I purchased in the South of France when we were on a riverboat cruise! |
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| Our bedroom opens through French doors into a wonderful sun porch! |
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| Here is a block from the quilt that uses that navy fabric that was my favorite. It was a wonderful border print that I also used later in a lap quilt that we use in our Waco living room. A Kalamazoo machine quilter, one whom I've used many times to quilt for me, quilted both of these quilts for me. She said to me that she and the others in her store had never seen many of the fabrics I used in these two quilts. When I explained that many came from France, she then understood why those were totally new to her! |
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| For those who thought my quilt looked like a shelf of books, here's how I actually constructed this quilt. Now that I see it here, perhaps this way is best???? |
