Saturday, March 20, 2021

Third Saturday of March 2021

For "Hang Your Quilt Day" this month, the theme was March and St. Patrick's Day. Shown from left to right the quilts are The Tornado Quilt, Cheery Daisy Stars, and an untitled wall hanging with eight chickens I will refer to as "The Chicken Quilt". I interpreted the theme loosely and chose quilts with green in them or were pretty springlike.


The Tornado Quilt has this title just because I displayed it in a local quilt show and it needed a name so I made one up. I won this quilt in a raffle sponsored by The Oklahoma City Modern Quilt Guild where my daughter lives. I published background about it in my blog post dated 6/29/13. It was a fund raiser in response to the devastation caused by the May 20, 2013 Moore tornado. The Tornado Quilt measures 54" wide by 72" tall. Spirals are quilted in the light rectangles and square waves are quilted in the orange, turquoise, and green rectangles.



Cheery Daisy Stars, 2007, predates when I was blogging and also when I was quilting my own quilts. I did select the quilting pattern though and the spirals fell nicely in the triangles and the central four loop shape did not obscure the center. In fact the only way I know this quilt's name and completion date was by its label. (See? Labels are very useful!) This label was printed not embroidered and I have since learned that the lettering will wash out. Oh, dear. guess I used the wrong printer and printer ink. I machine embroider my labels now. Cheery Daisy Stars measures 48" square. The fabric was fussy cut from a LakeHouse fabrics daisy panel. 

LakeHouse was established in 1988 as a design studio devoted to licensing designs to manufacturers in the craft, home textile, gift, stationery & wallpaper industries. Twenty years after it's inception, LakeHouse has morphed into LakeHouse Dry Goods a textile design business with an emphasis on fabrics for quilting, baby bedding and children's clothing.




Because of its green center, I chose to hang "The Chicken Quilt" out for March "Hang Your Quilt Day". It was made from a 1994 Button Weeds pattern that I started in 2004 and completed in 2014. Yup... twenty years for a 34"x34" wall hanging but I was determined to make that UFO history. The birds have three dimensional wings for flapping, teeny-tiny waddles that were appliquéd, and they are backed by a fabric of baby chicks. The outer border is composed appropriately of hen and chick blocks. It was one of my initial forays into quilting the top/batting/backing sandwich and I did it all on my domestic, spending an overabundant amount of time figuring out my quilt path. For more information, in somewhat excruciating detail, refer to my blog post dated 11/12/14.




Hang Your Quilt Day Beginnings
Beginning April 2020, my quilt guild members began a tradition of hanging quilts in the front of their homes on the third Saturday of the month as a source of enjoyment for the community and as a thank you for the essential workers during the pandemic. My initial post about this practice is dated 4/22/20.

1 comment:

  1. I remember you winning that quilt from OKC MQG! I think the pattern was named "Tulsa Town" and that's part of why they made it - in retrospect, it does kind of *look* like a tornado, though. And now that you mention Lakehouse Dry Goods, I think I actually have some proof I, too, am a fan. Many years ago, I picked up this quilt kit from The Fat Quarter Shop: https://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt-patterns/bed-quilts/fast-flowers-twin-bed-quilt-0 and though I've yet to make it, I finally remember where *else* I have seen that look! Maybe I'll tackle this one once I get Christmas Traditions done.

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