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because the border vines and blossoms are all glue basted!  I got these finished last night! There are no duplicate fabrics in the blocks in the center of the quilt and no duplicates in these 4 borders. The woman who made these had an incredible fabric collection. Once I clean up the cutting table this morning I will start making the dots for the centers. All those little solid square are the centers for each flower. I'm quite excited to have gotten this far and see wrapping up all the prep work this weekend. But there are leftovers and you won't believe how many!  I have 10 embroidered blocks that might go into a small quilt so that I can practice some quilting ideas. Or not.  There are still 30 basted flower blossoms, some partial blossoms and HUNDREDS of basted petals. But that's still not all!  There are FIFTY FIVE basted blossoms in blue and not one duplicate fabric in the bunch. Amazing. What in the world was this lady planning with all of these?
But I can't think about these right now. The will be packed away for another time. I'm going to focus on the project at hand and hope that I don't leave it as a UFO for someone else some day.
Claire Christiansen
2/18/2017 11:14:07 am
I don't remember how you got all the flowers, petals, etc. but it might be time to pass them on to someone else. One quilt out of them might be enough in one person's lifetime. And it would get them out of the house and UFO category. 2/19/2017 08:23:23 am
What amazes me also is that some of those blossoms appear to be fussy cut so that the outer points match (more or less.)
Becky in VA
2/19/2017 09:09:29 am
You've certainly brought all these petals to life! The lady who made them must have really enjoyed making each and every one and just couldn't get stopped. I suspect she had a source of fabric cut-aways from a factory. In the little town where my grandmother lived there was a small apron factory and cut-aways were available to the women in the community.
patty
2/20/2017 09:47:19 am
I am glad I didn't end up with as many maple leafs as you have flowers and pedals! Apparently the lady that made these like what she was doing and just kept making them! Comments are closed.
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