Now you have a stash of fabric that goes on to the next part of its journey. Cutting it up to make a beautiful quilt. Moving on down the game we chain stitch as many pieces together to make the quilt come together quickly. Once we have our block made we share those little accomplishments with our friends in many ways. Quilt retreats, quilting bees, or online. Then we finally have the fabric in its grandest form, a QUILT! That is a win!
To make this little quilt I went on the hunt for fabric that would show the moves on the game board. The cute characters with the quilt steps all come from a piece of fabric that I had a tiny bit leftover from years ago. It is similar to Lorelie Design fabrics, but I don't believe it was hers. I have such a small amount of it and no selvage to see who the real artist is. If anyone knows I would love to credit her.
The only pieces that I didn't find printed on fabric were the quilt shop that looks like a cute mushroom to me and the quilt show banner. The bookshelf was a stripe fabric and I found smaller striped fabrics that I cut into little squares to look like fabric. The stripe fabric is all together in the photo.
The chain stitched blocks and block next to the sewing machine were cut from a piece of Mary Engelbreit fabric that had little quilts on them. Those pieces were just part of a border around the center design. The washer and dryer I made real simple by cutting a circle for the dryer out of the orange circle fabric I had leftover from the word "Translate". It was a fun time of discovery in my quilt stash. I hope you enjoy finding where all the pieces came from in the photo.
Judy, this quilt goes beyond clever to ingenious! And thanks you so much for taking close-ups that make it easy to "click to enlarge" to see the details better. I never knew that you were such an accomplished cartoonist! At least I am assuming that you are the artist who drew the people engaged in all aspects of the quilting process. I am simply blown away by your quilt and only wish you had described the process by which you first drew the little illustrations that adorn your quilt and then transferred them to the quilt itself!
ReplyDeleteOh my! I am not that good of an artist so I added another photo and information of the fabrics I cut those cute illustrations from.
DeleteOkay, now I understand! In a way I am sort of relieved. I would have felt like a dumb bunny if I hadn't been aware, after our long years of friendship, that you were also an accomplished cartoonist! These fabrics are so clever and neat and how fortunate it was that you had them in your stash!
DeleteOh my goodness, Judy, you knock it out of the ballpark! This is a very creative quilt!. Your illustrations and characters are whimsical and I had so much fun reading through your quilt migratory process. Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteYou will now have to read "The rest of the Story" I added with the photo of fabrics I cut the cute things from. I went on a treasure hunt for sure!
DeleteJust read the process part. What cute and whimsical fabrics you found in your stash! This was such a great treasure hunt! I'll have to give this q try in the future!
DeleteWow What an amazing quilt. I just love your interpretation of migration. I think this is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteOh Judy... Never in a million years would I have thought of this ! Your quilt is brilliant, and the different ways you used your fabrics are fascinating. Thanks for letting us join you on your "Migration !" Kathy
ReplyDeleteThis is very clever Judy!! Love your game and the migration of fabric through the processes we quilters go through to make our quilts!! Great use of fussy cutting and "improvisation" of fabric to produce this winner!!
ReplyDeleteFun!!!!
Oh Judy, this is so clever, inventive and fun! Such a great interpretation of the theme. You must have had the best time designing and making it. I'm sure I have some of the 'quilting ladies' fabric. If I come across it I will definitely let you know.
ReplyDeleteThanks! That would be great to know. I tried all kinds of ways to find it on Google, but nothing came even close to it.
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