Welcome to Throwback Thursday @ A Quarter Inch from the Edge!
This month, I'm really digging into my dark quilty past!
Certain quilts in my house have been seeing a lot more action since DT came on the scene. This is one of them. It rides around the car and gets thrown over the kiddos when it's chilly.... which is pretty much all the time lately!
It's the fourth quilt I ever made and my first scrappy quilt, completed in November of 1999. Lots of these 2½ squares came from my stash... pre-quilting scraps that is. In this pic, I can see cottage curtains, a skirt I made, a piece of tie dye done in junior high art club, some scrunchies... not to mention my first three quilts!
Adrienne @ Chezzetcook Modern Quilts might recognize more than a few of these squares. That's how long we've been quilting together!
It was also well before I learned about the wonders of printed backs (they hide quilting foibles so much better) or the fist rule of spacing one's quilting. And that solid isn't a Kona!
And it was definitely before I learned how to "properly" bind a quilt. It's not the prettiest, but it got the job done and is going strong today. Results like this are also why I learned to hand stitch my bindings!
With the February blah's upon us, I had to get a little creative for this photoshoot. I got some odd looks from the Emera employees coming and going at lunch time!
Scrappy happiness circa 1999. For me, the best part of Throwback Thursday is envisioning quilts re-done in more modern ways. Rainbow palette? All Konas? Low volume perhaps? Makes me want to drive into my scrap bins!
Now it's your turn! Link up a blog post about a project from your dark quilty past. This month, you can win a gift certificate from Canadian on-line fabric shop (and big supporter of A Quarter Inch from the Edge),
Fabric Please!
How to win? There are three ways.
- Link-up a blog post telling all about a quilt from your past. Don't forget to link to A Quarter Inch from the Edge in your post or grab the Throwback Thursday button for your sidebar.
- Leave a comment on this post telling me about what quilt from your past that you'd love to give a makeover... or a do-over!
- A bonus entry for followers of Fabric Please! followers. Just tell me how you follow!
The giveaway is open to International participants until Sunday, February 10th at 11:59 Atlantic Time. If you are a no-reply blogger, please be sure to leave an e-mail. If I can't reach you, you can't win!
Hope to see you back on March 3rd for Throwback Thursday {Volume 8}!
J
Why is it that we turn to the older, trusty quilts for everyday use? I would totally keep a quilt like that in the car, to use all the time. It looks comfy - probably thanks to your light quilting - and it's actually quite cheerful despite the fact that there are a few "blah" fabrics. Looks quite sturdy - so, bonus, if the kiddos ever throw up on it, it's a n easy wash...
ReplyDeleteI am too impatient to SLOWLY machine sew a binding so I am reverting back to hand sewn bindings. Hmm, which would I redo??? My first churn dash maybe?
ReplyDeleteI would love to remake a quilt that I just did last year. It was a free Tula Pink pattern and I used my favorite brights. Unfortunately when I went to use the two background fabrics, I must have been partially blind because one is bright white and the other is well off white and closer to brown. It doesn't seem to bother anyone but me but it's all I can see. Maybe once the annoyance has died down I'll redo it.
ReplyDeleteI just subscribed to Fabric Please and I'm happy to find another Canadian source for fabric.
ReplyDeleteThe pale green flowers on medium green background--I have it in pink!! There's something so appealing about a quilt of nothing but small squares...makes me want to dive into MY 2.5" squares organizer... Love the hits of yellow in here too.
ReplyDeleteI follow Fabric Please! by email. Love the Thursday deals. ;-) Sorry forgot in my other comment to answer the question! What quilt I would redo...hmm maybe the one I'm linking up today, and I'd put a solid back on it (I had already learned about using a printed back to hide any "quilting foibles" as you say, yet I mentioned in my post that you can't appreciate the lovely texture from all the feathers I did.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful blast from the past, Jenn. And the perfect set up for a photo shoot. You can imagine this quilt remade in a planned selection of pretty prints or solids, but none would be able to recreate this scrappy goodness.
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt--wonky binding and all. It looks so loved and cozy--the softness that comes with a lifetime of use. The photo on the fence is gorgeous. We have a quilt in our family room that is starting to wear thin. It's a Trip Around the World. I love the hand quilted vines on it. Someday I'll make it again, but it's not quite worn out yet.
ReplyDeleteI love your photo shoot! My throw backs are living in other places, so I can reshoot pictures! I big shame on most of them! I would wrap this a round me, it looks so comfortable! Every time I dig out an old throw back photo, it gives me ideas on how to change it up..upgrade it!
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Ah, I made a similar quilt for my second quilt ever (probably 1979-ish). The squares were bigger tho. When my boys were small they called it "the rainbow blanket". It wore out completely after many years in the car and on the grass. I tossed it when it was down to shreds. I kind of wish I would have saved it or at least taken a picture of it. Oh well. :-)
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ReplyDeleteI have to say, what draws my eye with this quilt is how the quilting echoes the chain link fence hiding behind it in the photos. Nice placement. :) Scrap quilts are fabulous for the extra memories they can add to a piece; not just the memory of making this quilt but the locations where the fabric came from.
ReplyDeleteI like choosing the right backing to hide all my quilting issues. The picture on the fence is great. I know exactly have you feel about stares...I had some Clemson students look at me pretty funny (or not look at all)! Hmm, a redo- I have a wall hanging made from 4 paperpieced blocks I won at a guild BOM. It was so difficult, on 3 others made the block. For some reason, I started quilting around the edge and when i finish up in the middle, I had this lump of fabric. Lesson learned for sure! Thank you for hosting Throwback Thursday.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a gorgeous quilt - and very well made. The fact that this quilt is still intact shows that the fist rule and the binding rules are just mere guidelines and not rules. Love the palette you used on this quilt. The quilt that I linked to was recently completed, but started in 2010. I decided not to list any negatives in the post for its debut, but it could definitely use a do-over.
ReplyDeleteThere is just something about a scrappy quilt that screams love me. I'm not sure what it is. It's like all the different colors together let you know it is an object of happiness, comfort, love and safety. And don't worry I know those looks you are talking about, when you take your quilt on a field trip to the most un-quilt place ever for pictures ;)
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ReplyDeleteI have a quilt made of yellow and pink (linked above) jelly roll strips. It is very ugly (even then I did not love it). I'd re do it now, including not using left over jelly roll strips...
ReplyDeleteI like seeing these quilts from the past! It's great that it's being used. Good luck everyone on the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. I have an old bargello quilt which could certainly do with an update/redo!
ReplyDeleteI follow Fabric please by receiving her emailed newsletters and on FB.
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate how generous Rita is with giveaways. Hope I get to meet her and thank her for her generosity when I go to the Canadian Quilters Association show in Toronto in June.
I follow Rita on Facebook!
ReplyDeleteI have an Amish quilt that I hand quilted in the 1990s that I would love to do over!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been quilting for long, so my throw-back is only 2 years old. I would re-do my first quilt, a rail fence from jungle-themed batiks, into something more modern. That is really the only quilt I don't like much.
ReplyDeleteA do over you say? hmm...this big twister would look pretty sharp done over in Kona Kandy wouldn't it??
ReplyDeleteYour oldie is a great scrappy masterpiece...the best quilts aren't necessarily the ones that are have the finest construction!
I follow you through e-mail. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt looks so beautiful up on the fence.
ReplyDeleteI'm following by email.
ReplyDeletejust linked up for the first time. My quilt was backed with a bed sheet. Seemed the thing to do at the time, why waste money on the back? Little did I know then what I know now.
ReplyDeleteMy first (now donated) quilt had all sorts of clothes remnants and a solid back too. I would use clothing scraps any day, but I love patterned backs for the reasons you explain.
ReplyDeleteMy first quilt ever never got finished. It was so ugly I lost interest & eventually while purging, it was tossed into the garbage. Fortunately it was small. All plaids, like the pattern I was using, & it was just TOO MUCH. annesimonot@sasktel.net
ReplyDeleteI already follow Fabric Please via email. annesimonot@sasktel.net
ReplyDeleteWhere did you do the photo shoot? Good thing DT love quilts -- they're all getting great use.
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ReplyDeleteMy second quilt needs a do-over. It's a double Irish Chain with very little quilting. It sorta just doesnt feel like a quilt. It still gets used but it isn't warm.
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ReplyDeleteLike you, I made a quilt many years ago (32, to be exact) from squares of fabric. My squares were 2", hand-cut (using a cardboard template because there were no rotary cutters then) from fabric used for dresses for my daughter. It was tied, not quilted. I still have it, but gosh, wouldn't I like to mix those holes and add a real binding instead of the knife-edge binding I did. Ah, the memories that quilt holds. I see so many pieces of clothing when I look at it.
ReplyDeleteNancy. (ndmessier @ aol.com, joyforgrace.blogspot.com)
I would love to re-do the quilt I made my Mom back before I first started blogging (I actually plan on it being my next TBT!). I've come so far in just a year and I know I could make her something so much better! There were so many technical mistakes, all rookie mistakes that I know how to avoid better now that I have a few more quilts under my belt. It was made with lots of love, but I'm thinking it is a quilt only Mom could love. Hahahaha
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ReplyDeleteAs soon as I saw a flash of this quilt I knew it. Still remember you making it. I still marvel at the binding business I guess my first quilty teacher needed a few more lessons too!
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ReplyDeleteI am worried about my thousand pyramids quilts. you know the one. It is getting pretty fragile...plotting ways to do something with it.
ReplyDeleteI follow Fabric Please on instagram and i get her newsletter.
ReplyDeleteI would remake the rainbow mini i sent away last year for a swap ao I could keep it!
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