Throwback Thursday {Volume 9}

Welcome to Throwback Thursday @ A Quarter Inch from the Edge. It's a monthly chance to share quilts and stories from our dark quilty pasts!

Way back in 2005, Himself asked a favour. Even though he already had a quilt, he really wanted one to take to sea with him. And if you love someone, you make them a quilt. Or two.

 

We bandied about the idea of a Storm at Sea block, but in the end, I'm just too superstitious to send a quilt with that block to sea. I opted to go for a log cabin block, using Eleanor Burns' Quilt in a Day techniques. If you've never read one of her books, please do. So many tricks to speed up your piecing.

The dark side of the log cabin features a scrappy variety of navy blues and the light side has small scale prints that would likely fit the bill for today's low volume lovers.

Borders... wow. I sure don't do those very often anymore. And the inner border? It's 100% Klenck Junk (though at the time it was most definitely Faulkner Junk!)

A note about the location for this quilty photo shoot. It's a gorgeous statue on the Halifax waterfront created to pay tribute to sailors past and present. Something about it has always called to me.

Lest you think my photo shoot disrespectful, please know that my grandfather was a career sailor. He and my husband would have had so much in common - a love of the sea and of the outdoors, as well as being avid hunters and fishermen. I wish they could have known each other. His quilt and this statue is as close as they get.

Before I left the waterfront, I popped over to another icon of our downtown... 

  

The Wave! It's a strangely modern sculpture for our traditional town, but it's loved (and climbed upon) by all ages. And it gave me a sunny place to lay out the entire quilt and show off the windmill layout. I remember choosing the layout by taking pictures of a bunch of options and then showing them to Himself.

Ah... the early days of my FMQ skills. If you look closely, you can see a wave motif. Yikes. If you look even more closely, you can see my attempt at a crab. Double yikes!

"Boat Quilty", as this one is known, is our go-to quilt for taking camping or on ski vacations. You just don't know when you might have a quilt emergency. We'd hate to be unprepared. It's likely the quilt in our house that gets the most use... well, it was until DT and their Plus Two quilts came along!

For this month's giveaway, I'm heading back to the stash. I've been a little quiet lately about The Year of the Stash, but I haven't forgotten! I'm heading into my stash to make the winner a custom scrap pack. Yup, sending fabric to a new home is almost as great as using it myself!

1. 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.
2. Leave a comment on this post telling me about your experience with log cabin quilts. 

The giveaway is open to International participants until Sunday, April 10th at 11:55pm Atlantic Time.

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J

P.S. See you on Thursday, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo!) for Throwback Thursday {Volume 10}