A finish: Criss Cross Stars

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I had a finish a few weeks ago, but no time to write about it.  It's Wednesday, and time to share.

This is a pattern I am calling Criss Cross Stars, though there may be another name for it (Air Castles?).  The 9 inch blocks are made of real feedsack material and vintage cottons from the 1930's and 1940's.  The off white fabric is new.

Wide sashing, no border.  A throw sized quilt, though it is on my bed now.  I had it quilted by a local long arm quilter who always does a wonderful job.  The next photo is a close up showing the vintage fabric but also the quilting:

A thin cotton batting was used.  I am glad to have this bound and labeled.

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New fabric, new blocks, & inspirations

 Hello and welcome to Viridian's blog.  I have new fabric and blocks to share today.

I received a gift certificate to my favorite on line store, Reproduction Fabrics, so I had to spend it!  I recently received the fabric:

Fabrics designed by Michelle Yeo, and that's not all:

Fabric from other designers.  All are in the style of early 1800's fabric.  They may look vaguely familiar because this style of chintz fabrics are still being sold today as "furnishing fabrics" - for upholstery and curtains.

I quickly made new octagon blocks to add to my current project:

My inspiration for this project was an image from Pinterest, showing somewhat smaller blocks, most likely put together by English paper piecing:

When I sew together my blocks the tan will look more like squares, and be closer to this look.

In looking through my quilt history books, I found another chintz quilt to copy:

This quilt from the Poos collection is about 92 inches square and I estimate the triangle blocks are about 4 inches square, maybe 5 inches.  It depends on the width of the borders (not given in the description).  Since I had my fabrics out, I cut pieces and started sewing.

Yes it definitely has that look!  Individual squares will finish at about 5 and 1/4 inches.  A close-up:

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A finish: Flower Garden quilt

 Hello, and welcome to my blog!  It's been raining in the American Midwest but today we will be slowly drying out.

I have a finish to report.  I started this project in August of 2022 and blogged about it in this post.

Well its time has come.  It was sent out to a local long armer and came back recently.

This pattern is called Flower Garden from the book Scrap Therapy: Scraps Plus One, by Joan Ford, which I found in my local library.  The colorful scraps here are all feedsack fabrics, or vintage fabrics from the 1930's and 40's.  If they have been stored properly, older fabrics are still sturdy and can be used in today's projects.  I have picked up these fabrics at antique fairs or ebay.

A closer look:

I machine stitched the binding to the back, folded it over, and top stitched the binding down, which needs a steady hand and your full attention, as noted previously.

A close up of some pretty feedsacks.  It finished at 58 by 72.5 inches, and is now on my bed.

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Snowball blocks: now in early 1800's reproduction fabric

 Hello, and welcome to my blog on quilting projects.

I think I am working in a series.  I have been sewing up some snowball blocks in reproduction fabric:

a. in late 1800's repro fabric

b. in 1930's - 1940's repro fabric.

Now I have a new project in mind: use my stash of early 1800's reproduction fabric, in a little bit larger block size.  Did I mention I love studying antique quilts, and collecting reproduction fabric?

Using a tan solid I had in stash, here are the first 9 blocks:

Blocks finish at 8 inches square.  The tan is a little dark, but we just bought a new car, so I must be frugal and use what I have.  I have 2.5 yards of the tan.  I hope it is enough.

I kept making blocks:

Fabrics of the time period 1810 - 1840 were big and bold - no little calico prints.  That came later.  

More work on this project today I hope!

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