small triangle scraps, trimmed from a guild friends snowball blocks. Always a tease, she left them, in the wee small hours of the morning, tucked under the arm of my sewing machine. It was our guild retreat in Osceola, WI.Many years ago in Nov. I knew it was her as soon as I saw them. "What can you make from them?" she asked. So I had to go home and try..*VBG* First I sewed all the triangles in HST blocks. Then I decided
Shoo Fly block. I felt they were too much like my big christmas table cloth that is shoo fly and 9 patches. So I added the extra triangles to make them a square in a square. But I didn't like that look either, so I laid them out on point, and filled in by cutting some blocks in half for the setting triangles. It's a long ways from where it started, and I have laughingly said "I re-invented the wheel". I seem to have a great ability to turn something very simple into way more work than it should be....LOLYou've seen this quilt in the background of some of my pictures and now it's got it's own "post"...*VBS* I'm thinking about Judy's Gratitudes this morning, and I may just do it in Christmas scrap. I found the container in the sewing room while cleaning..*VBG*
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22 comments:
Very nice quilt. I like it alot. A Christmas Gratitude quilt. What a great idea. Maybe I might, no time. I have two quilts to complete before Christmas and maybe a third if possible. My son is getting married on Dec 28th so that is in the picture also. Busy, busy, busy. Keep us intrigued by your beautiful quilts.
This looks so cool! My first glance would have been hour glasses and shoo flys but you have a fool the eye thing going on like the two I just posted that Joy did. I looked at both of those quilts and said to myself that "Finn is going to love these when she sees them"
I really like the look of that quilt Finn - the little splashes of cheddar really make it sparkle
What a pretty quilt you made from those scrap triangles!! I love it, Finn!! But I think I feel that way about everything you show us!! LOL
Love the quilt! Is that a piece of your favorite Christmas fabric you shared last year that I see there in the middle of the second picture?
You prove that there is no such thing as scraps... I love the adventure of scraps..Lots of love in those hands..
How pretty! You are a wonder with scraps!
Your scrappy quilt is great. Sometimes we have to take the long path when the short one would of been better.
Just look at what started as something simple and common, and you have turned it into a beautiful quilt. Great job.
That quilt is lovely!
What a perfect use for the 'scraps'.
This is a beautiful quilt, and a great story. Finn, you are such an inspiration to us all. You are the closest quilter I know who does what our foremothers used to do - make something beautiful out of the scraps that are at hand. You have a stash - you've showed it to us - but it is very modest compared to many of us. You aren't compelled to run out and load up on the newest fabrics. Yet you continue to create works of art from what you have. They are traditional, and are created from your hands, head and heart rather than from a pattern in a magazine. More and more I find myself looking at lovely new fabrics and saying to myself, "Finn wouldn't feel compelled to buy these. She creates beautiful works of art from what she has." I've found it so easy to resist temptation to spend when I think of you. I look at the riches to be found in all the fabric I already have, as well as all the magazines, books and patterns I have, and I tell myself I really don't need anything more. The difference is this time I'm really believing it - yesterday, today, and probably tomorrow. The last two years at this time I've had a big unopened box of fabrics that have arrived that I hand to my husband and say "here, dear, I've done your Christmas shopping for you." This time I have no such box. This is a good think. Thank you so much for your daily inspiration to the rest of us - it means so very much!
I love quilts made from leftovers - this is great!
What a beautiful use of scraps and colos. I've been tossing triangles into one of my scrap drawers. You've given me some ideas on how to use them.
Oh, Finn, this is a beauty! I've been looking for nice scrap quilt patterns for my guild.....this may be a good one for them! Will try to post the latest few we've done. We do 2 blocks each and donate one to the drawing, and one for Hospice quilts. I have one of the hospice tops in my possession I can photograph and share!
Oh, FInn, I really like this one.
What a lovely quilt Finn :-)
OO what a real finn quilt !! I LOVE it
And doesn't it look great! Love those checks - the diagonals really add to the whole effect. Finn, well done, even though it was much more work than you'd anticipated!! And you saved all those tiny triangles too :)
Love this quilt - from scrappy beginnings to a wonderful finished quilt :)
I love this quilt, Finn!!! For some crazy reason, I've always been fond of the Shoo Fly block. And your addition of the hour glass blocks just *makes* it!
It's just like soup day around here...making something wonderful out of very little of many things!
I love your quilt Finn. What a great way to use up those pieces. Now you have a beautiful quilt and a wonderful memory to share *s*.
Oh it is wonderful Finn! Leave it to you to "do something" with them and make it turn out wonderful!
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