My Quilt of Many Colors

A replay of a favorite post....

Plezzzzzzzz let me say that

I am NOT a quilt maker in ANY sense of the word.

I don't even PRETEND that I know the first thing about

making QUILTS.

I don't even know how to sew and that's a fact !

I can sew a fairly straight line.....

but THAT IS IT...!!!

My mom was the BEST quilt maker, ever.

And, do you think I took the TIME back then, to

WATCH and LEARN ?

SHOOT NO !

bwaaaaaaaaaaa

I must have been crazy....

I was bound and determined to make at LEAST,

a simple

9 PATCH

and learned, in the process, that

COLOR...

PATTERN...

NEATNESS OF SEWING

plays an AWESOME role in the construction of a

SIMPLE QUILT and how it looks in the end.

COLOR and PATTERN of the fabric can make a simple quilt look FABULOUS

or a little on the dowdy-looking side.

I was looking for a CUTE fabric.

COLORFUL

INTERESTING

SOMEthing that would take my

PLAIN and SIMPLE QUILT

to another level....

If the fabric is awesome...

and cute..

and softly bright...

you can end up with a pretty cute quilt that you can be proud of....

and I have to say,

THIS one is my favorite of all the ones I've made.

....nothing fancy...

no design, really....

straight sewing, ALL THE WAY....

but I love it.

...I didn't want just the 'run of the mill'

SIMPLE 9 PATCH..

no sir....I WANTED CUTENESS... 

"Your house is on fire and your children will burn...."

I had to have some kind of KILLER fabric..

a light, airy, FUN fabric.

hmmmmmmm??

DEBBIE MUM !

YES !

Sooo, I bought a few yards of HER fabric,

found some in the thrift bin at the fabric store.

Used a little of other fabrics I already had

and started

CUTTING SQUARES...

lots and lots of SQUARES.

I also learned that the BACK of a quilt is just almost

as pretty as the front.

All squares and puffy looking and....

sooo fluffy-cloud SOFT....just full of yummyness.....ummmmm

Now, you REAL QUILT MAKERS out there..

please don't look too closely.

It was HARD...HARD, I TELL YOU....

to get all those little tiny squares

all lined up with each other.

MERCY !!

You know, this has a light weight batting and yet it is so warm.

Mr. Sweet just loves sleeping under it..warm but not heavy.

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Some 9 PATCH quilts have a SOLID square in the middle of each nine.

Some quilts are made with the SAME center color...

while others have a variety of solid colors.

I am so haphazard, I had about 5 million nine patches sewn together before

realizing that I might have liked a solid color in the middle.

Oh, well...I MIGHT (and I might NOT) make another someday

and I'll try to remember that solid square.

OOO..

and don't think, in all my

DEBBIE MUM

Quilt Love,

that I forgot to have something  YUMMY to serve you.

You know I ♥ YOU MORE THAN THAT...!!

 

POWDERED SUGAR DONUTS....

I love 'em so much, I wanna marry 'em...!!

So pretty served on my mother's vintage little plate.

XOXOXO

bj

 

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