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- From: bab2@nestor.cc.bellcore.com (barter,elizabeth)
- Subject: Re: My Dream Project
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 19:30:09 GMT
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- My mom took a quilting class a few years ago and
- has since made all of us kids (9 in all) quilts
- (log cabin pattern) for our birthdays. She made
- an extra two squares from each quilt and put them
- together into a quilt for herself - it's pretty
- wild looking, since we all have different tastes
- in color combinations, etc. Anyway, this has caused
- the entire family to become quilt crazy. Two of my
- sisters and 2 nieces are quilting, and Mom and one
- sister have some things for sale in a local shop.
-
- Once I learn to sew a bit better :-) I'll get around to this...
-
- A maple leaf quilt, using a bright blue for all the background
- pieces. My plan is to use 4 blocks for each season, each in
- a different color. Winter would be white, grey, a clear blue
- and maybe a tan. Spring would be pastel green, yellow, and
- maybe lilac and pink. Summer would be a variety of deep/dark greens
- (or maybe seashore colors?) and Autumn would be reds, golds and
- oranges. I was inspired by some wonderful Jinny Beyer fabrics
- printed with ivy leaves (the green is in my quilt), but I think they
- have all been discontinued since I saw them. (That's what I get for
- not buying them right away!) But any leafy patterned fabric would do.
-
- I've also taken quite a liking to the pine tree block - maybe
- I could combine the two somehow.
-
- But first I've got to finish the x-stitch baby quilt (for the baby
- who's 6 months old already), the teddy bear with bib for the baby
- who's not here yet and the christmas stockings that I've been working
- on for too many years to count and ...
-
- Beth
- ___
- /\ \
- / \/ \ A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest
- ___ \ O / ___ A motley fool; a miserable world!
- / \ \ / / \ As I do live by food, I met a fool.
- / __ - - __ \ - As You Like It
- /___/ | <> <> | \___\
- O ___| ^ |___ O
- / \ -^- / \ Beth Barter
- / /\ \_____/ /\ \ Bellcore
- \_ / / \ \_ / Livingston, NJ
- O / /\ /\ \ O nestor!bab2
- \ / \ / \ /
- O O O
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