Showing posts with label rainbow quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rainbow quilt. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2015

UFO Turned Into a Cool Quilt

It is not Valentine Red!  A quilt unveiled on Valentines Day should be red!

Here is another quilt for the 6 boys.  They range in ages from 12 to 6.  Did I tell you they moved the wedding from July 3 to April 4? No sweat!

This one is an interesting piece.  I was in a group that pulled scraps together and made fabric.  We each named a block or style and the group made blocks.  When it was my turn I asked for a warm square and a cool square.

For a while I had a top with all the blocks put together.  Then one day I decided to slash them up and add some black strips.  And I slashed that up and rearranged some of the colors.  It sat in my UFO pile for a few years.

Before I decided to do quilts for all the boys, I was thinking of taking the top and slashing once again.  I was thinking in terms of a stained glass window with little odd shaped squares and black lead strips.

Now it has turned into this. Another piece of my mother's stash completes the top.  I will have enough for the back as well, or close to it.

It is 54 x 54, another square quilt and we all know how much I hate those square quilts.

And I have enough of the colors for one, and maybe two, more quilts!