Quilt Too Small?

Red and Blue shown at Durham Orange Quilters meeting, 2022.

It’s been quite a while since I posted here. I’ll try to catch up, as I HAVE been making quilts. But today’s issue is a quilt that is too small.

In 2022, I finished a queen quilt for my own bed. All Kaffe Fassett fabrics with a bamboo batting. But both of us toss and turn all night and the sateen backing lets the quilt slide everywhere. So I’m adding new blocks to three sides.

Fortunately, old and recent Kaffe fabrics coordinate well. The quilt is called “Red and Blue” despite the whole rainbow, black, and white in the fabrics.

New blocks combining old and new fabrics.

New quilt sandwich section ready to quilt.

I’m taking the quilt-as-you-go approach, quilting each new part, then seaming it to the main part. I still had some of the original batting and backing left and have begun quilting the additions.

Not too crazy about taking the 10 yards of binding off, which will now be too short. I found 12 yards of Kaffe binding on ebay and am hoping it will be enough.

Update – Honey Bee Variation Quilt – 1948

Honey Bee Variation Quilt

Honey Bee Variation Detail

Honey Bee Variation Border Corner Detail

 

You might remember this quilt, that I posted in 2014. It was made in 1948 by my great grandmother, Rose Brown Tague. The traditional honey bee block, in pink and purple, alternates with snowball blocks with green corners. The original post can be accessed under “Family Antiques” in the right-hand column.

I recently found an old photo, taken of my grandmother, Mary Josephine Hamrick Tague, holding nine-day-old me, her first grandchild. Covering her chair is this new quilt, positively dating it to 1948. That’s my father’s writing; he probably took the photo.

It would be great if there were photos floating around showing some of the family’s other quilts. Wishful thinking. . . .

 

2016 – Fly Away Home

Finished at last. The “geese” are dimensional, made using the one-seam method popularized by Ricky Tims.

Fly Away Home

It’s baby quilt sized.
On to the next project!

2016 – Secret Stars

Secret Stars youth quilt

This youth-sized quilt was made for my great nephew Nicholas. Here are some details:

All the 2″ squares are shirting plaids or stripes – except three that have stars. Also, all rainbow colors are included, so there are some fun things to search for.

2016 – Rainbow Hearts

The Rochester Modern Quilt Guild is helping the Orlando MQG collect heart quilts in rainbow colors for anyone effected by the June 12 shooting at Pulse. Here are the blocks I’m contributing.

Rainbow Hearts for Orlando Modern Quilt Guild

May we all live in harmony.

Update 2-2016 Fly Away Home

Progress on the Fly Away Home quilt continues slowly. It’s like assembling a jigsaw puzzle while painting the picture at the same time. Here’s one quadrant taking shape on the dining table.

Pieces of Fly Away Home

Update – 2016 Fly Away Home

Progress on the Fly Away Home quilt has been slow recently, but I finally pieced some of the flying geese blocks. I’m using the dimensional technique with one seam down the center, with the “goose” folded out.

Flying Geese Blocks for Fly Away Home Quilt

2016 Fly Away Home

More on the new quilt, right now being called Fly Away Home.

Colors and fabric ideas for Fly Away

Here are some fabrics being auditioned for this quilt. I’m thinking the geese will fade from bright orange at the center through coral to very pale. The white/neutral background will hopefully deepen into aqua, then turquoise, toward the quilt’s edge. We’ll see how fabric selection proceeds. I tried a progression like this before (see Dwindle at https://lotuscove.wordpress.com/?s=dwindle from 2014) with only limited success.

First 3-D Flying Geese

The exception to the turquoise fade is the central “nest” block, here pinned to my design wall. The 3-d geese are easy to make, but the openings need to be pinned until the blocks are joined. Here’s a link to good instructions for constructing them:

http://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/3d-flying-geese-quilt-block.html

 

Completed – 2015 Not Much of a Path

Not Much of a Path

This lap quilt is now finished. I used 4″ and 8″ Drunkard’s Path blocks in a sampler layout to show differing ways to use this flexible and easily pieced block. Here are pictures of some details:

“Not Much” detail

The quilting started at the small circle and spiraled out to cover the entire quilt.

Complete – 2015 Princess’s Crown

This crib quilt is based on the traditional King’s Crown block, but I renamed it to reflect its size and color scheme.

2015 Princess’s Crown

This will go to the Genesee Valley Quilt Club’s Love and Comfort Quilt project. Here are some details, showing the crown details in the quilting:

2015 Princess’s Crown – front detail

2015 Princess’s Crown – corner detail

2015 Princess’s Crown – quilting detail

2015 Princess’s Crown – showing back

Everything for this quilt came out of my fabric stash, including the backing. With this completion, I have only one unquilted project waiting in the wings.