I came up with a very efficient way of creating a Trip Around The World Quilt.
I published a pattern for my method but it is sold out.
I made a slight change in this one and added black which makes the colors sing.
This is a time lapse quilt. The first 20 in the series were finished many years ago.
I was not pleased at the time with this one.
I finished it a few days ago and with all the quilting I do love it.
Often I just start sewing fabrics together and wait until the quilt tells me what it wants to be.
This was the way I designed this quilt which was finished a while ago, altough it is a time lapse quilt too.
This quilt was created with two groups of 8 hand dyed fabrics each. One group was mottled rainbow fabrics. The other groups was loosely 8 gray toned neutrals.
After sewing the strips together I sliced and diced and this is what happened.
Recently I shared this quilt on Facebook. It created a lot of interest and my friend Debby wanted to see the other quilt I made with the same fabrics.
I did find the companion quilt and I am sharing it here for Debby, myself and everyone.
I had a system to create both of these at the same time. But I can't for the life of me figure out how I did it. That is the way I work. I do NOT keep track of how I create my ART as I have no desire to repeat what I have done. Each new piece is a new adventure.
I have a full time studio Assistant.
Her name is Quilting Granny and she is a whiz with a needle and thread.
I drew the feather design that was hand quilted.
It also uses a variety of black fabrics to add texture and interest.
This Nine Patch Heart quilt was made with a variety of colors and I used various black fabrics to give texture to the background.
This is one of the quilts I made from an accumulation of my scraps.
It was a lot of fun to make and it almost emptied the sxrap drawer.
I made a king size bed quilt with similar blocks that has been used and abused and needs repair work.
There were enough blocks to make a quilt that is about 70 x 80 inches.
This also qualifies as a time lapse quilt.
The quilting is amazing.
It is printed on a label on the back of each quilt.
Heirloom Quilt made by your grandma Kay Koeper Sorensen
To Blake, Jessica, Nicholas and Jared Sorensen
This quilt is quite different than what you are familiar
with as the quilts I currently create.
It was made with scraps of fabric from sewing projects I
created from 1954 through 1962.
It is one of 4 similar quilts that were originally 2 twin
size quilts.
The 2 quilts were the first quilts I made and finished.
They were originally made for your great grandparents Harold
and Florence Sorensen as Christmas gifts in 1962.
They were patchwork on both sides as I had more time than
money.
They were filled with old fashioned cotton batting and tied
with wool worsted yarn on the floor in Edon, Ohio while I was 8 months pregnant
with Greg Sorensen.
The reason they survived and have been made into 4 quilts
were because your great grandma Florence Cooper Sorensen didn’t use gifts she
was given for whatever her reasons were. Had she used and washed them they
would have probably had frayed seams as I did not use adequate seam allowances
in some places and the batting would have been one ball of cotton inside the
quilts.
When she passed away in 1971, I again became the custodian
of these quilts. I took them apart intending to make 4 quilts. I was concerned
the light green thread I had purchased at a Junior House clothing fabric sale
on a large cone might have deteriorated but found it to be as strong as the day
they were made.
This took many years to accomplish but I am happy they now
are finished for you and future generations to love and cherish for the future.
Since none of you or your father were familiar with any of
these fabrics, I am also creating a memory story sharing some of the fabrics
and their stories.
They were created from the scraps of my fabric I accumulated from sewing cotton clothing from 1954-1962.
I hope you can read this new blog post.
