Thursday, 9 September 2010

Quilts Donated.

I took 3 quilts to be donated to residents of a local nursing home this week.  The Disappearing 4 Patch, Bricks & Stepping Stones and Convergence quilts are now all with their new owners.  They seemed really pleased with them and the staff love seeing all the different patterns and fabrics used too :)

I'm showing a picture of the Convergence quilt here, because I haven't shown it on this blog before.  It started in April 2009 when I borrowed a copy of Ricky Timms' book from the library.  I used Thimbleberries fabrics and was aiming for a quilt suitable for an older man.  I did the vertical cutting/piecing as per the instructions, then started the horizontal ones ... but decided I really liked the graphic nature of the pattern and stopped after one stripe!  Borders were added and voila!  It stayed as a UFO for several months due to my health issues, but was finished late in 2009 with simple diagonal line quilting.  Happily, it has now found it's new owner :)
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3 comments:

  1. That's a very like-abubble quilt Helen. I have that book too. It's good to see how it works with 'ordinary' fabrics as opposed to hand dyed ones, Thank you.

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  2. I like this quilt a lot! Modern but not to fussy. This would be very good for men quilts. Especially one"s who are not into the fru fru things.

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  3. The convergence quilt is great! I agree it was the right choice to stay with that one strip.

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