{"id":496,"date":"2020-10-12T18:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/?p=496"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:17:01","slug":"danis-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/danis-quilt","title":{"rendered":"Dani’s Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOL It’s been three years since I posted? That’s kind of hilarious, especially given how I discovered that was the case. I came here to find a picture of a quilt I’d assumed I’d posted when it was finished (a couple years ago). But I discovered I hadn’t updated to mention the quilt being done\u00a0or<\/em> posted a photo of it. Wewps.<\/p>\n

So let me do that now LOL<\/p>\n

I have a love love\/hate thing with scrappy quilts. I love how efficient they are at using up scraps and making use of every little bit of fabric. I dislike how ‘messy’ they can sometimes turn out.<\/p>\n

That’s why I always try to tame them down in some way either by using high contrast blocking like with this log cabin<\/a> or by using a quieter fabric to set the blocks. Like I did in this quilt I made for my daughter, Danica:<\/p>\n

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This quilt is pretty special. The nine patch blocks were recovered from a quilt my mother made me when I was very young. It was her very first quilt and I loved it very hard, so by the time I was in my thirties it was pretty clear the poor thing was doomed.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away, though, so I broke out the seam ripper and found a few 3×3 sections where the fabric had stood up well enough to be reclaimed. I pulled that out and put it on point with a dark blue marbled fabric to mellow it a wee bit.<\/p>\n

Then, because Danica wanted the background to be yellow I got eight different shades of yellow fabric and created a gradient of darker to lighter for the yellow. The border is made up of different shades of yellow (whatever was left over) framed with the same blue I used to surround the blocks. It also includes a small swatch of the fabric from my grandmother’s wedding dress (I did not cut up the dress. It’s a long story. For another day).<\/p>\n

For the back I used the very first quilt top I’d ever made — a patchwork thing made of flannelette that I’d sewn together while I was pregnant with Dani but never actually got around to finishing.<\/p>\n

I tied it using dark colours in the center of the nine patch and dark blue parts and light colours which would blend in on the yellow patches.<\/p>\n

So this quilt of Dani’s has bits from my first ever quilt, from my mother’s first ever quilt and my grandmother’s wedding dress all melded together.<\/p>\n

She loves it and I think it exemplifies patchwork done right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOL It’s been three years since I posted? That’s kind of hilarious, especially given how I discovered that was the …<\/p>\n

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