As usual, I tend toward an old-fashioned feel for most of my quilts and because I randomly chose both the colored squares and the neutrals from my scrap basket, I think this one looks as if it might have been made a hundred and fifty years years ago from someones carefully saved scraps.
For the backing fabric, I used a simple red dot on a white background.
There is something about polka dots, large or small, that I find so appealing. Always good in a quilt for a little one.
I used a meandering quilting design but quilted only on the neutral fabrics leaving the colored squares to stand out on their own. I didn't want any of them to slip into the background.
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Have a great week, everyone, and I hope you have time for lots of quilting!
7 comments:
Beautiful! I love the little pops of some of the brighter colors like the oragne.
OOOh! I love all those prints! I just bought a few "30's fabrics" today...but they're not as cute as what you've got there! Such a cheery quilt! The scrappy whites/lights are great too!
I love polka dots, too, and there's just nothing like red dots on white.
That is so cheerful and bright. And I too love polka dots!
Hi, Diane - Thank you, ma'am! Gotta have those bright colors in there!
Hey, Beth - I wondered for a while if I made a mistake using some of the "beige-ish" neutrals in there with the whites, but now I think I like the over-all look.
Hi, Joan - I may be prejudiced but I like RED in just about all quilts!
Hi, Jen - Thank you, as usual, for your encouragement!
Very nice! I love the 30's reproductions, actually have some I've been trying to figure out what to do with.... now I think I know! =) This is great for using up scraps!!
Hi, Lisa - Or even just alternate a 30s reproduction square with a neutral square for the whole quilt. That would be very old-fashioned looking and easy peasy!
Thanks for the nice words and thanks for commenting.
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