January 3, 2008
The Call of the Sewing Machine
by Joanne Larsen Line-- a very lovely quilt book* recommended to me by Carolyn.After selecting the block pattern for the quilt, I headed off to Quiltology to look for the right fabrics. Initially, I was thinking about something that really said "baby", but after browsing through Collette's fabric collection, I liked the idea of making something that would grow a bit with the child, and could be a part of the child's room as the child grew. Since I don't know the gender of the baby I decided to stick with "baby neutrals": yellow, green, orange and purple with splashes of pink and blue. Here are the fabrics I chose:
The two fabrics in the center are Kaffe Fasset fabrics. The focus fabric for the quilt blocks (i.e. the center of the block) is the second fabric from the left -- I love all the colors and the psychadelic lollipop quality that the fabric has. The focus fabric will be bordered with the blue fabric with the orange polka dots, and the corner stones for the block will be the orange Roman Glass (second from the right) fabric. The square will have a second border, and that will be done with the yellow fabric, which will also have corner stones from the Roman Glass. I'm hoping it will turn out to be playful and light and just a little funky.
* This book is a nice book for a beginner like me. It has many quilts, most of which are based around classic quilt blocks. It shows most of the projects in a variety of fabrics to help the reader see what different effects different fabrics can have. It also has nice instructions to help you strip piece and do things efficiently. However, the book isn't solely for beginners, the quilts in it range from the delightfully simple (like the one I am going to make) to rather more complex. It would seem to offer something for almost every quilter.
I love that book! When I make a quilt from it as a gift, I always give a copy of the book, too. I made the Children's Delight quilt for my niece when she was born five years ago, with Peter Rabbit fabric as the center block and bordered with vibrant greens, yellows and reds because we weren't sure of the gender either. She still uses it. I love the fabrics you chose and look forward to seeing it grow here.
Beautiful fabrics! I'm looking forward to seeing another quilt develop!
Am I the only one having a problem? For some reason, I still cannot see your pictures. It's been going on ever since you upgraded your MT software, I think. I've done some searching on the MT site, but can't find anything about this kind of bug, and since I don't use it myself, I don't really have the resources to figure it out. I did try it in both IE and Firefox, and on different computers, so I think I can state with confidence that the problem doesn't lie on my side of the computer. Is there any way you could put in a problem request to MT?
When I right click on view image, I get this fascinating statement "You don't have permission to access /knitblog/images2008/jan/20080102_BabyQuiltFabrics.jpg on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. "
In the meantime, I'm glad to hear you are getting back to the sewing machine. I just recently finished some potholders that have been hanging over my head for way too long.
Those are beautiful fabrics! I cannot pick out fabrics to go together at all (except for one patterned with one plain, LOL). But as a mother of a boy, I wouldn't use a quilt with pink and purple in it. My guy (like most babies) looked pretty unisex when clothed so I avoided anything with purple cause as a girl, I LOVE purple, LOL.
Those are perfect fabrics for a quilt that will become a "blanky." Baby quilts are beautiful but it's so nice to see one that just screams 'love' and not just 'baby.'
Baby, baby, this is gonna be good!