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| Vintage Dresses by Charise Randell |
I didn't have a lot of time with all the holiday stuff to get my normal staged photo, so I used the Scientist in Training's empty bed to see how it would look. The side view shows off the border better.
The binding will be a darker blue to end the theme of successive darker blues in the border. I'm really happy with how this project turned out. Now to get the backing made and prep the quilt to go out for quilting. I dread the prepping part. There will be lots of clean up on the back to be sure no threads show through to the front.
That's the finish for last week. I gave into temptation and started a new project last Wednesday. Kevin The Quilter started a scrappy mystery quilt along.
The quilt along uses two colors of scraps. After looking at my bulging bag of 2.5" strips, it was pretty obvious that getting some of those strips into a quilt would help my storage situation. Brown and blue were two of the biggest piles. So that's what I started with.
It didn't long to whip up a few 4 patches from these strips.
These 4 patches work up pretty quickly. The next clue doesn't come out till the end of July, so I should be able to finish off most of this clue before the next one comes out.
Linking up with the usual Monday show and tell posts.
Monday Making
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Main Crush Monday
Oh, I bet you’re doing the happy dance now that vintage dresses is finished. Have I told you how much I love this quilt?? ;)
ReplyDeleteSuper cute quilt!
ReplyDeleteThe vintage dresses are just amazing! I love the frames around each dress and your border is wonderful! I love looking at each dress ...brings me back to my paper doll days!
ReplyDeleteThe Vintage dresses look fantastic! Can’t wait to see it quilted.
ReplyDeleteI love the vintage dresses quilt, too. The gradually changing blue borders are perfect! I can't wait to see your backing and the quilt all finished!
ReplyDeleteThose dresses are so cute! They remind me of the dresses my grandmother used to sew (she was a seamstress), and all the patterns from that era. I'm contemplating, sort of committing to, Kevin's QAL. I just need to gather my color, which means I need to clean my scrap bin, procrastinating on that a bit.
ReplyDeleteYour dress quilt is awesome! All of those blocks came together so well and the borders are perfect.
ReplyDeleteYour Vintage Dresses quilt turned out beautifully! The gradation of blue borders sets it off perfectly and was definitely worth all the time. Can't wait to see it quilted and finished!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your newly completed quilt top!! You've made a good start on Kevin's mystery, too. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteYou're so close on Vintage Dresses! The gradation of blues in the border looks great. The dresses are larger than I thought. I was a little tempted by Kevin's QAL, but I'll just enjoy watching you play along instead :)
ReplyDeleteIt looks fantastic! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteYou’ve done such a marvelous job on very step of this quilt. It’s going to be such a fabulous quilt when you’re done!
ReplyDeleteLook at you go!! YAY for joining in the crazy scrappiness! ha ha!
ReplyDeleteAll your beautiful piecing in the dresses is now nicely framed, congrats on finishing your flimsy!
ReplyDeleteLooks like your scraps will get new life in this mystery.
I love your dress quilt shop much! Yay! Top is done.
ReplyDeleteI checked out the mystery. Love his batiks.
Your quilt is so amazingly beautiful! Congratulations! I have enjoyed following your progress! Wow!
ReplyDeleteThat's a beauty! Have you thought of entering it in a show? Sounds like you had a good 4th. This summer is going by so quickly. After finishing that flimsy, you deserve to start a new mystery. Enjoy your summer sewing! I'm out of the sewing machine area until the weather cools down again.
ReplyDeleteHooray, the dresses top is finally finished! Congratulations and it is wonderful - I didn’t realize it was bed size, wow!
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