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concrete garden quilt
I am over the moon with this finish! It's been a long time coming... it began it's life in 2016 when I created the central hexagon and my wonderful Bee A Brit Stingy friends made bee blocks. They each made a square and a triangle block. My brief as 'queen bee' was asking them to use the background fabric I sent, along with a mix of cheery fabrics and create geometric blocks for the squares and triangle blocks made up of triangles.
The starting point for all our bee blocks was a central panel in the shape of a hexagon. The hexagon was formed with six triangles cut from the background fabric. I hand pieced the flowers, which are from the Daisy Do pattern from the book Quilt Lovely by Jen Kingwell. Then machine appliqued them to the background.
This quilt is called Concrete Garden because of this central panel - the mix of prints with the monotone background reminds me of city living and a garden growing through concrete. Overall the quilt layout and blocks remind me of an allotment too, common in city suburbs.
I wish all Tuesdays were like this one
because today I've been commissioned to finish a beautiful vintage quilt.
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The quilt has been made mostly from clothes from the 40s and 50s and the prints are so varied and gorgeous.
It is a very large bed quilt and the hexies have been appliquéd onto a pretty blue backing.
Quite a bit of the hand quilting has already been done, though it's still going to be a fair amount of work.
It is a special task and one I will thoroughly enjoy!
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