Hand-Dyed Plaid-ish Quilt Top

Sometimes a UFO calls to you on its own.  This time, seeing the post by A Left-Handed Quilter caused me to dig out a UFO and see what I could do with it.  Here is the photo from March of 2020 (just before the pandemic caused a lockdown across our country.)

At the time I was considering putting it on point. But I pulled out some lovely hand-dyed fabrics from Colorways by Vicki Welsh  and found a piece that just seemed perfect.  I am not sure what gradient it was supposed to be - this is fabric that I won on her blog.  It didn't come out as precisely what she wanted so she used it for a giveaway.  I was the very lucky recipient. 

I cut the strips so that the colors in the border converge at the corners. That just seemed the obvious choice for a Convergence Quilt. I really love the plaid effect that is achieved with this particular convergence. 

And, in case you are wondering, the inside is all hand dyed fabric also.  One piece is the Barrier Island gradient from Vicki Welsh  also.  I love the gradients.  The other is a discontinued Color Wheel gradient.  I have a couple more of the color wheel gradients in my precious stash of Vicki's fabrics as well as several more gradients. 

This one is ready for quilting.  I plan on it being a table topper so I may use a lighter batting in it. 

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A Finish at the End of February

At last, we had a decent day to take a photo.  The quilt has been finished for a couple of days, but it wasn't dry enough for a photo.   I really wanted to lay this quilt out in the field across the road but it is still far too muddy. So, I strung a rope between the sides of my car cover.  

The fact is that this quilt is pretty heavy.  It weighed down the rope and dragged on the cement.  

Then  a bit of a breeze lifted it up so I snapped another shot. I do love the batiks in the pieced blocks paired with the hand-dyed fabrics in the solid blocks.   You may have noticed that I did a scrappy binding with various colors of batiks.  One reader, Gail, suggested a scrappy binding.  I decided that it would really look good with the white borders.  It plays nicely with the blocks and carries the color to the edges for a nice cohesive look. 

I have pulled out a UFO to work on for Monday's post.  Hint - more hand-dyed fabrics!!!!

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Puzzle Update

Mom and I have been working on the puzzle intermittently.  We have a bit more put together.  The really good news is that Mom's puzzle skills are improving.  So I think it is activating some parts of her brain that had "gotten lazy."   Don't forget that your brain needs exercise too. 

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It's Just a Jump to the Left....

The quilt hasn't got a binding yet.  I took the "jump to the left" for a bit and spent the weekend attending a virtual fiddle camp. Actually it was the Maine Fiddle Camp  that was held virtually this year.  I don't play fiddle, but they offered some other instrument choices and even singing.  Saturday morning I took a singing class.  And then Saturday afternoon, I took a class on Ukulele.  Sunday morning was another ukulele class - and since I had enjoyed it so much the day before- I took that one too.  I learned some fun things.  Even though I am still learning, I was able to perform in the Camper Concert. For that I played the song we learned in class called Pachelbel's Wagon. It is a fun mash up of Canon in D by Pachelbel (but we played it in C) and the song Wagon Wheel by The Old Crow Medicine Show.  I must confess that I somehow never heard Wagon Wheel before this class. 

Later - after all the classes- I had time to play with another song. This is an older song that was  sung by the New Christie Minstrels.  I heard them sing it in concert years ago. Here is my version.  I hope you enjoy it. 

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