The heat and humidity are unrelieved. My two little window AC units struggle valiantly to make the air more pleasant, cooler and drier, and I'm mighty grateful for them. I went out at sundown yesterday, hoping to trim my big 96" X 99" Easy Street in the cooler air of the dusk.
WRONG! It was so hot and humid even at that late hour of 8:15pm that my head began to sweat so profusely that I was dripping onto the quilt. UGH!!! I detest summer's heat. Make it snow!!!!
Here is the quilt before trimming.
By the way, I am absolutely clueless and mystified at how a SQUARE quilt got to be a whole three inches off it's length. If you look up at the image above, you can even see the left corner's splice of a bit of batting.
The backing that I chose was a 108" quilt backing that I think that I got on a sale from Hancock's of Paducah. It's a strawflower design in red and black on a beige background designed by Judie Rothermel for Marcus.
We used turkey red thread in both the bottom and top and I think that it helped to tone down all that green a bit and it shows nicely on the tans and beiges.
This quilt still overwhelms me with it's busy-ness; there's a lot going on here!
I'm glad that I stuck with my choice of Baptist Fans.
The binding will be the same burgundy as the two inch squares in the little four-patches and on the inner border. I did finally get it all trimmed!
It is an amazing quilt and I love it! Thank you so much, Bonnie K. Hunter of http://quiltville.blogspot.com/. If you are a reader of mine who loves this quilt, then you MUST buy her next book where the instructions will appear. It isn't out yet, so I don't know what the title will be yet.
Happy sewing!
WRONG! It was so hot and humid even at that late hour of 8:15pm that my head began to sweat so profusely that I was dripping onto the quilt. UGH!!! I detest summer's heat. Make it snow!!!!
Here is the quilt before trimming.
The backing that I chose was a 108" quilt backing that I think that I got on a sale from Hancock's of Paducah. It's a strawflower design in red and black on a beige background designed by Judie Rothermel for Marcus.
This quilt still overwhelms me with it's busy-ness; there's a lot going on here!
I'm glad that I stuck with my choice of Baptist Fans.
The binding will be the same burgundy as the two inch squares in the little four-patches and on the inner border. I did finally get it all trimmed!
It is an amazing quilt and I love it! Thank you so much, Bonnie K. Hunter of http://quiltville.blogspot.com/. If you are a reader of mine who loves this quilt, then you MUST buy her next book where the instructions will appear. It isn't out yet, so I don't know what the title will be yet.
Happy sewing!
8 comments:
What a beauty, Vic. I love it!
I love it, too! It's a good busy!
OMGosh, it IS a beauty -- LOVE the quilting thread, red, and also the Baptist Fan design. What a huge job - do YOU love it, busyness and all?
I always LOVE the quilts with a zillion fabrics - would love this one as well. Be proud - it's gorgeous and what fun to relive all those fabrics.
STUNNING! You are rightly proud of a great quilt. Good choice of backing, thread and quilting pattern. Most of all you should be extremely proud that you did it ALL yourself on such a huge quilt :)
Vic, Your quilt is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!! Your civil war fabrics give it such a wonderful scrappy look.
Sure can empathize with the hot temps. We have 90+ degrees even here in Minnesota. Thank goodness for A/C.
Beautiful! Love your colors and fabric. I just cut more strips for step one. Plus I'm working on Orca Bay and Double Delight. Stay cool!
I think there are a LOT of us who dislike summer because of the extreme heat - at least here in Utah we rarely have to deal with high humidity too.
Your Easy Street is gorgeous - I still have a handful of blocks to make and haven't worked on it in several months - sigh....
i do love it...gorgeous!
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