Wednesday, September 17, 2008

More Vintage Fun


As promised, here are the other projects that I did with the 1930's scraps I was lucky enough to acquire. (see previous post)




This first one, Tumblers, is the smallest one. It was paper-pieced with the tiniest scraps. I wanted to use as much of these fabrics as I could, and there were some fabrics that all I had were tiny scraps. Some of the tumblers had to be pieced to have a big enough piece of fabric to use and they're 1.25 inches at the large end of the tumbler and .75 inches at the small end! The whole tumbler is 1 3/8 inches long, and the entire quilt is 15.25 inches by 18 inches. Not the smallest one I've ever done, but pretty small!



A close-up so you can see some of the fabrics.
Can you see where some of these are pieced?



And here's the last project with the 30's fabrics. The yellow border fabric on this is the feedsack found at the bottom of the grocery bag. Some of these little squares had to be pieced also. The smallest squares measure 1 inch finished and the 4-patch is 2 inches. This whole quilt is 21.5 inches square.


Some closeup so you can see more of the fabrics.
You can see how many plaids and graphic designs were in these fabrics. That was surprising to me based on the reproductions. I had no idea there were so many plaids available then!
I hope you've enjoyed seeing these little treasures!


The quilt tops from the previous post are having their backs made now. I tried to shop my stash, but it just wasn't working. So, 40% coupons from JoAnn's to the rescue! I've kind of lost my momentum at the moment, so it's not going as fast as I would like.
I found a copy of "Liberated Quiltmaking" at the library and so have been re-reading it. I just wasn't seeing some of the things in the quilts that Gwen was talking about, until I realized that many of the quilt pictures were printed upside down! Oh yeah, NOW I see it!

We've got a bird feeder outside the kitchen window. I try to keep it filled with sunflower seeds. We've had so many little Mountain Chickadees visiting us! And there's been another little bird that's about the same size as the chickadee that comes. It's so small and so fast, it's hard to get a good look at it. We haven't been able to identify it. Finally, I found it on What Bird web site last night. It's a Red-Breasted Nuthatch! If you click on the link, you can see what it looks like, because I can't get a good picture of it. Be sure and listen to their call too. I've been hearing this call all summer and it's been bugging me that I didn't know/remember what it was. And, just so you know, a group of nuthatches is called a "jar" and a group of chickadees is known as a "banditry" and a "dissimulation" of chickadees! (I learn something new everyday!) The kitties seem to think that all these birdies are a show just for them.


Speaking of TV, we finally got to watch "The Sarah Connor Chronicles." We think it's very well done! Even has good continuity with the movies. We've watched 2 weeks worth of "Fringe" as well. It was well-done too. Very X-Files like. We were really surprised to see John Nobel on there! He played Denethor on "Return of the King", in case you don't recognize his name. However, I don't think we're gonna make Fringe "must-see" TV for us. We've gotten burned out on "Lost" and I can see this is more of the same un-ending mystery. Oh well. "Heroes" starts next Monday - Yay!

4 comments:

  1. Liberated Quiltmaking has lots of upside down pics???? I never even noticed. There is one antique quilt in Liberated Strings that appears twice - once upside down.

    glad to hear that Sarah Connor continues to be good - really enjoyed the first season. I'll definitely check out Fringe. Didn't watch any of the second season of Heroes. I'm thinking I'll wait and see how much people enjoy the third...

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  2. You know I think if I were stranded on a desert island and had to pick one "genre" of fabrics to have, it would have to be 30s fabrics - I love them and they speak of home to me. Blessings, marlene

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  3. I love what you've done with your 30s scraps. I haven't read liberated quiltmaking yet, but I really must... bit scary for me because I am definately not "Liberated" in the fabric sense by any means! It's funny that pictures are printed upside down -- guess the editor hadn't any appreciation for the subject matter.

    I've heard GREAT things about "Fringe" and we've set it up to TIVO.

    Cheers!
    Dionne

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  4. oh my i love those tumblers. i tried paper piecing once and really flubbed. maybe i need to try again. these are wonderful...the fabrics are so special!

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