title: All I want is red, wah, wah, wah...
creator: Colleen Charlotte Yarnell
location: Lewisville, NC
Challenge: Create a 36"-48" red and white quilt for the Forsyth Piecers and Quilters March16-18 2012 Quilt Show Challenge
Inspiration: I love the swoon-along happening online in blog land. It inspired me to create a 24" red and white swoon block. Then using 3" blocks as the basis for the rest of the quilt created my favorite star blocks. A 12" wonky star, a 9" Friendship star, a 6" Free hand star, a 3" whirly-gig star, and a 1" pin wheel. The title comes from the song I would sing in my head as I searched for red and white fabrics in quilt stores. It was hard to findfabrics with JUST red and white and not a touch of block or yellow. And there are so many different shades of reds!
Inspiration: I love the swoon-along happening online in blog land. It inspired me to create a 24" red and white swoon block. Then using 3" blocks as the basis for the rest of the quilt created my favorite star blocks. A 12" wonky star, a 9" Friendship star, a 6" Free hand star, a 3" whirly-gig star, and a 1" pin wheel. The title comes from the song I would sing in my head as I searched for red and white fabrics in quilt stores. It was hard to findfabrics with JUST red and white and not a touch of block or yellow. And there are so many different shades of reds!
Here are some photos documenting the construction and quilting.
Piecing the Swoon block. I use my Marti Mitchell templates. |
Friendship star |
Wonky star |
Freehand star |
Pinwheel and Whirly-gig Star |
Laying out blocks to figure out placement. |
Piecing the back with leftover fabric. |
I machine quilted each of the blocks differently. I used a pebble quilting for the wonky star points.
And here are some close ups of the quilting.
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I used just a little bit of the variegated thread with the tiniest block. It makes it look as if it is blowing in the wind. I like how it gives the whole quilt the look as if the blocks are being tossed in air.
At the bottom of the quilt I put a piece of Kumari Garden.
I love this large scale read and white print. I decided to do some hand quilting here.
I quilted over it using red pearl cotton.
My only problem was the chalk was not easy to remove.
I hadnt stitched the binding down.
Keep dreaming...Colleen
Pillow made for mom's birthday with red and white scraps from this quilt. The pattern is a 12" Swoon by Camille Roskelly. |
2 comments:
Great quilt and pillow!
love what you've done!
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