a top strip using more Van Gogh fabrics pictures in the centers....
AND this cute print of a Parisienne....(keeping in the Van Gogh mode)
avec un beret
I so enjoyed utilizing these 3 leftover blocks (who would have thought
they would turn out to be my own dream of Paris???)
This is what I love about working with quilt fabrics in a free way....without
a net (pattern) so to speak....
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This quilt is both a "strip" quilt and a "coin" quilt (what do you
say Ann? click to go to her blog).
I love using long strips of muslin to sew on...
I got that bright idea from looking through a book by
Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell titled:
"Quilting...just a little bit crazy"
which details methods of Crazy Quilting...
(I bought this book of instructions to help making my own little
Crazy Quilt hanging last Summer)-- AND
right before I fell asleep the other day.............. I thought:
WHY NOT????
This is why I L O V E, love, {heart} my quilting books;
you always find something to use as a springboard
for your own pieces; even if it's a method, exact copy or
simply an extension of a nebulous idea swirling around in your
brain.....
SO....................................from this:
TO THIS:
hubster wants me to use this as a wall hanging; so I will now have
to choose a dark binding I think; I don't want to lose those edges of the light strips too much....
BACK into the stash--and FYI:
this was all made from fabrics on my shelves...how
great is that...;)))))
(and in 20 minute segments, Cathy! click to go to her blog)
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This won't be the last of these blocks either--I have 4 more to make into something....(like I've said before, I always make many more than I need as
you never know which ones will work well together in this scrappy style).
I have no idea where they will take me...but I am excited about strip quilting in this manner...and my next journey....
Hugs to all from hot and sultry SE CT
Julierose, (La Blageuse-Francaise)
