If you are a regular reader of my blog, you may recognize these fabrics as those I used in two different crazy quilts. When I was finished cutting out the crazy quilt blocks, I cut the remaining fabric into 2.5" strips, and I made this concentric square quilt.
When I started working with these fabrics, I started with some half yard-one yard pieces from a line of fabric I liked, Paisley Place by Wilmington Fabrics. I didn't buy yardage of all the prints, and I purchased multiple yards of the border print. I supplemented from my stash so the end result was likely half stash and half the line of fabric. I got three quilts from that, two crazy quilts (one of which was queen sized, one throw), plus this quilt which is twin sized. All the yardage I had from the line is gone, but I happened upon a jelly roll of that fabric on clearance, and I still have that unopened. I rarely get asked for quilts with pink in them, so I had fun working with it. It seems like most of the girls and women I know are anti-pink. One of my nieces was the focus of the first quilt though, and her favorite color is pink, plus she's a huge fan of neutrals. I was stumped untl I saw that fabric line, and then I was inspired. My niece is an adult, and up until I saw this line of fabric I was afraid a pink quilt might come off as childish. I have made other quilts with hot pink and black that weren't childish at all, but since she prefers light pink I was a bit hesitant.
My niece has her crazy quilt, and a friend of my granddaughter claimed the second crazy quilt, this one will likely be donated unless someone claims it first. It's hanging on my wall quilt rack so I can enjoy it for a bit before it moves on.
It's mid-April and I've got 7 quilts done so far this year, so I am on schedule to get two quilts done per month this year. I know I'll have some catch-up to do later in the year, because we do have some travel planned, but currently I'm basting the quilts I made Frankenbatting for, and they are all throw sized, so once I start quilting those they should go quickly.
One really fun thing we did this week was absolutely not quilt related. DH and I love live theater, and he bought us tickets to see the traveling Broadway version of Back to the Future-the Musical. It was on the University of Arizona campus, and since we got there early we had fun people watching for a bit, I was really surprised by the number of dogs on campus. Anyway, the show was great, it was the first show I've seen that used projectors heavily to add scenery to the stage. Between the projectors being able to make the scenery change quickly and the rotating stage, they really did manage to make the car look like it was moving fast, even though it wasn't moving much. One of my favorite things about live theater is watching the sets and seeing how they handle moving them between scenes. The car even "flies" at the end, just like in the movie.
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