The Four Letter Words quilt is finally finished.
This was part of Lazy Gal Tonya's LOVE exchange last year. Tonya made and sent out sets of pieced blocks spelling the word LOVE and participants were to get busy with them.
This top was pieced by the end of '08, as ordered. But then it sat and mellowed for awhile as life got in the way and controlled the steering wheel for awhile.
Not wanting the LOVE part of the quilt to get too schmoopie, (Apologies for posting that link again but I CANNOT HELP MYSELF) my thinking had been to make a quilt full of four letter words. Probably best not to use the bad ones, although that would have been fun... So it became a quilt of positive four letter words.
For backgrounds, there was the stash of wordy and letter-y fabrics. Fun!
And a free-pieced border, using scraps from the letters.
It was quilted with the usual meandering , echo-y scribble, using varying bright colors of rayon repeating the bright colors in the pieced words. I could never hit on one single color to use. The binding is more word-y fabric, directional enough that it takes on an interesting look on the bias.
This quilt grew like some organic thing, with no system and very little measuring. In the end there was a decision to be made about squaring it off or not squaring it off. It stayed crooked. Happily though, the top edge ended up sized so it will fit on a wall quilt hanger I have.
So now it can go into the regular rotation of the changing quilt display in this house.
Ta Da! A finished object...
21 comments:
Love it! Every choice seems to have been spot on.
And it's finished!! Always a bonus...lol
It is wonderful: I am inspired now to make one of my own.
Love this. I also love the word Schmoopie!!
Such a great idea for a quilt, and it worked out so well! Love the background fabrics and also your inner border. And if I'd seen the Schmoopie video before, I'd forgotten it. Great ending there!
Love this quilt! Now I want to make one of my own.
this is wonderful. I really, really, really like it. and lovely word fabrics too!
It is a wonderful quilt. I love the positive slant of it and your background fabrics are spot on.
Congratulations on the completion.
That is a great quilt!
woohooo, I LOVE it! so happy to see it done. mahvelous job. congrats!
I was thinking of you and your words, during a recent trip to North Platte, Nebraska, The Quilt Rack, as they had a bunch of black/white letter favric choices. (And I'll be you never knew we remember your posts! 8-))) )
Kathy!!! This turned out really neat.. love love love it... will we be seeing it soon? Like this monday? hope so...
Congratulations on a great finish. I just love this quilt.
All I can say is - I love this quilt. Congratulations on finishing your fun and pretty design.
Glad to see you let the rules stay on the shelf and freeform took over. It's a great piece...one I'm sure you'll enjoy for a long time.
An excellent finish!
I love it! And all those words fabrics! Very nice indeed. I've always wanted some, and never knew what I could do with them but this is a great idea I'm going to borrow.
It's terrific!
Way Cool!
What a great quilt!
Very cool! Love everything about it... from your fabric choices to your word choice!
Wonderful - congratulations on the finish. Sounds as if you had a great weekend, despite the lighthouse theme ;-)
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