Thursday, 31 August 2017

Vintage Spools

Here’s the wall hanging I’ll submit later today; my entry in the 2017 Utah State Fair Quilt Challenge. This year’s theme is “Tickled Pink,” an apt description of the challenge fabric. The fat quarters we were given last September were covered in tiny red tulips on pink stems – Teddy Stripe Pink by Riley Blake – which I used in the inner and outer borders and two of the spools. Most of the twenty-nine other prints are Japanese: Lecien Fabrics’ Minny Muu collection. It’s hard to see from this photo, but there are impossibly small pastel daisies, foxes, kittens and strawberries all over the place. I tried to put more quilting into this project than in previous years. It’s the one thing the judges seem to notice. It would be nice to earn a blue ribbon this time, but I’m not counting on it. I did have a lot of fun making this quilt. That should be enough, shouldn’t it? 

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