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My mother in law, grandmother to my children, has been feeling poorly lately. So I decided to make her a quilt (of course, as that is what we quilters do). She hasn't been able to go to her favorite beach in Florida for a few years. So when I saw a jelly roll and fabric with watery fabrics, and shell fabrics, I knew that would work for her gift.
I wanted to make log cabin blocks, with more subtle value contrast between the dark and light logs. And the jelly roll had a good number of medium value strips.
Darks in the middle but more medium fabrics to the top and bottom. I started the log cabin blocks with a very light center, very light fabrics on one side, and medium fabrics for the 'dark' side. And the lights moved towards medium values, and the darks moved to darker values.
I arranged the blocks this way at first:
No, I didn't like that. So try a streak of lightning set:
Yes that is what I did, and the picture above shows the top with borders attached.
Now it is back from the long arm quilter I use. Trimmed but not bound yet:
The binding will be the same fabric as the outer border. No, can't see the quilting, which is a pattern of shells and sand dollars. The fabrics are quite busy.
A peek of the back, shells on a beach wide back fabric from Backside Fabrics:
I hope to bind this tomorrow or the next day, and get this to Grandma soon.
Linking up with Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.
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