I wasn’t sure I was going to finish this top before it was too dark to take a photo, but I made it just in time (I was in such a hurry that there are still little threads left on the top…oh well). Thank you Lori at Humble Quilts for sponsoring this quiltalong, because I love, love, love this pattern. It gave me an opportunity to use some of my tiny antique quilt scraps in the pieced blocks, and I had a lot of fun scrounging through my bins looking for just the right print. The scraps I have to work with are pretty small, so the large alternate blocks are a reproduction fabric.
At first, because some of my blocks are sort of busy with many different prints, I thought I would make each block either red or yellow (seen here in an earlier post). However, after I constructed a few blocks, I realized that Lori’s original concept (from her antique quilt) looked just fine. It was no big deal to swap out the outside triangles.
As you probably know, the quiltalong was for a doll quilt, but I decided to make slightly larger blocks (5 1/2″) and a larger quilt (30 blocks instead of 9). The finished size is 40″ x 50″. I don’t normally make crib-sized quilts with antique fabric — they are a little fragile and not something you would really use for a baby, but I just couldn’t resist this wonderful pattern.
So pretty…great job Martha!
Martha, I don’t think it’s in you to make an UN-spectacular quilt – this is gorgeous!
You must have a wonderful stash of antique fabrics to be able to make the quilt using them. Your little quilt is a treasure!
It is gorgeous Martha! How fun to see the variety of wonderful fabric you had to use! Everything about it is perfect!
your quilt is darling
Just spectacular Martha! Wonderful fabrics..and beautiful piecing. Sometims the scraps are off-grain and can get wonky..but yours aren’t. 🙂
How lovely, it must have been a lot of hard work – and your points are perfection!
The PIECING on this quilt is amazing! It is always fun to take the time to look at your quilt tops more closely because of all the wonderful fabrics you use. I’m a fan of stripes and you’ve got some great stripes in this one.