1930’s Quilt Gallery II
Min, Constance and Patience are sitting on a pile of little quilts. The Human has been busy making several more Hitty quilts using old fabrics from the old yoyo quilt (Click here for previous posts about the yoyo quilt recycling project).
This is a gallery slideshow of the nine quilts I made. Each Quilt has a nine patch oriented on the diagonal in the centre. All the fabrics in the nine patch are from the original yoyo quilt. The green triangles framing the centre block are a modern fabric, but the same colour as one of the yoyo fabrics that I used up. The pink or blue triangles are from the original yoyos. The rectangular strips in the border are either vintage print (pink with white flowers outlined in grey) or modern reproduction 1930’s prints (green and white flowers; red, yellow and blue flowers on black cross-hatching; and yellow starburst pattern). The pink backing fabric turned over to make the outer border is vintage fabric, the grey print is as well, and the olivey green is reproduction 1930’s fabric.
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A scatter of quilts
Constance and Min are at this very moment in Tennessee, having accompanied their human to a carving workshop. A new Hitty sister is destined to accompany them home, and these little quilts will stay behind as gifts for the fellow carvers.
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Beautiful! Nice work! Well done! Also, great use of a slideshow in a blog! It was like visiting a quilt show.
Thank you – I like the slide show too. It is especially nice to see them all together, and the slide show gives that impression pretty well.
A terrific collection, and such a nice gift for your fellow work-shoppers! I hope it is going very well, and a lovely sister is emerging for the Quimper Hittys.
We mostly worked, but did a little shopping at the Smokey Mountains Woodcarving shop!
What a very clever meld of vintage and reproduction fabrics. Everyone will love the quilt gifts!
It was fun to make them all, and we were so happy to have something nice to give our new friends.
Carefully done, detailed stitches, no doubt happy recipients and another sister! Wow, what a treasure chest the Quimper Hittys have and allow us to be a part of. Thank you so much. It’s always such an honor to see your work as well as Quimper adventures.
It was an amazing few days, and I am still reeling with the fun of it all!
What beautiful work – We love quilts and these are some of the nicest we have seen. So much detail and such neat work – truly amazing !!!
It has made me want to make a big quilt with little patches just like this – I really liked the way they all looked together.
Gorgeous Quilts! And how exciting that a new sister is on the way!
I am glad you liked the quilts, it was fun to make and give them away. A little wooden girl arrived home with us, she is destined for my little girl’s little girl (eventually). She’ll live in the Hitty cupboard until everyone is past the chewing, hammering and temper tantrum stage.
Lucky fellow carvers!! Your quilts are so well designed and pretty. And you will be returning with a new Hitty?
Can’t wait to see the new addition to the family and to hear about the carving class!
The class was fun and educational, and it was especially nice to meet people who are fellow Hitty and Hitty-carving enthusiasts!