Welcome back to my blog! I have been very busy in my day job but I have a finish to report.
In looking back at my blog entries I found that I started this Film at Five project (Pattern from Wedding Dress Blue Blog) in Spring of 2020, in the heart of Covid lockdown. I used scraps and pieces of vintage fabric, and for background I used unbleached muslin that was left over from quilt backs. No stores were open so I had to dig through my off cuts to get enough for the size I wanted. Here is the final finished quilt, approximately 75 inches square:
Well, a bit of keystoning there! A closer view is below. I used smaller squares that the pattern called for, and adjusted my piecing.
I like the "Sprocket" borders. Just one more close up:
Showing the vintage fabrics and feedsacks that I used. This is quilted by a local long armer that I use frequently - she does a great job. The quilting is a pattern of simple leaves on a vine. The quilt has a thin cotton batting and is bound in the same fabric as the background fabric - more leftover quilt backing.
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5 comments:
This quilt is beautiful! So much fun fabrics to look at!
Love those sprocket sashings! Such a cute quilt. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2023/09/27/wednesday-wait-loss-347
Fabulous scrappy quilt. I love the "sprocket" borders and sashings also.
Gorgeous quilt! I have seen this pattern made in other fabrics, but never vintage 1930s scraps, your version is awesome! And it fits the time period, too, since movies were so important during the Depression and WWII. My father in law kept a diary then, and he went to the movies at least twice a week. My great grandmother belonged to a church that thought going to the movies was wrong, but she went all through WWII to see if either of her sons were pictured in the newsreels. (She left after the newsreel, of course!)
Sylvia:
Great story!
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