Sunday, August 28, 2011
Liberated logs and baskets
I have been wondering and trying to decide what and how I was going to teach my scholarship class at Ogallala this year. I took two classes from Gwen Marston - Liberated log cabins and Liberated Baskets. When I was discussing this with my mother, she came up with the wonderful idea of using the log cabins for the basket. ding, ding, ding we have a winner!!! I made two log cabins with orange strips (different fabrics in each) and made one yellow cabin. These were all from the scrap pile that I use to make "fabric" with for my intuition quilt. I pulled some brown fabric from a stack of fabric that has finally graduated from the pile by the sofa and made it up the stairs and into my quilt studio. I had thought I was going to use it for squares in the 6 inch square swap from a couple of weeks ago and decided that I didn't want a solid brown. It's no really solid, but kind of muddled. I used a different teal fabric for the handles on each of the baskets and sashed it with a brown/orange/yellow/green fabric that for some reason I really, really like. (I have been on a brown/orange kick for a little over a year now). I was going to make the border a large strip of that fabric, but decided that it needed a kick. So, I went through my teal drawer and pulled a fabric that has little bitty silver strips in it. The selvage says the fabric was made in 1999 so it is a bit on the old side, but I am so glad that I have it because it works perfectly here. Now to decide how to quilt this baby. I want to have a completed quilt for my project instead of just a top like last year. Now that I think about it, the year before I had three - count them - three completed (that means quilted and bound!!) quilts for my solids class. Last years wasn't quilted because I couldn't decide . . . . okay, I won't lie, it wasn't quilted because most of my tops aren't quilted.
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