(The only clickable pic - I'm having computer issues and am posting from someone else's computer. However, you can go to flickr and look at "in big" if you're so inclined)
May I introduce a quilt I whipped up yesterday - "Jungle Princess". She's a little quilt, meant for the much cherished youngest daughter of Tarzan and Jane (or perhaps your most cherished baby daughter *s*).
This quilt is funny - or serendipitous - because over at Coneflowers the other day, I was talking about how sometimes you pull together fabrics that shouldn't work, but somehow do - and this was one of those instances.
I started out with some fabric that seemed harmless enough - a commercial printed fabric of baby elephants, chimpanzees and lion cubs which I planned to fussy cut, another commercial floral print with pink flowers (also fussy cut), and this very cool dark-green-with-light-green-dots fabric that had a whole snake-y-garden-of-Eden feeling to it that I had a long, but only 12 inch wide piece of in my "green scraps" bin.
I put them together in some blocks and was well...truth be known, a little bored. And so I thought, what if I added something else - something really unexpected. I twice looked at that particular African waxed cotton print that I ended up using, but thought "no way" both times. When I went back to it a third time 1/2 hour later, I thought - "Well, I'll just whip up one block and see what it looks like. But there's no way that pink is going to go with that reddish brown print". But when it was done, I liked it so, I decided to throw those blocks in the mix.
When I started quilting it - I wanted to have some fun. You see, my original weekend project - "Our Mothers Danced" had been nearly quilted - I mean there was only a 12 inch section left to be done - when I decided that the quilting I had chosen had been a terrible, terrible mistake, and I had absolutely ruined the quilt, and so I sent it to an ignomious death - cutting it up into usable chunks, and destroying the quilt. *sigh*
So I wanted a quilt top that would be easy - and quilting that would be fun. And boy, was it. I had such a big grin on my face most of the time that I was quilting this - if you'd seen me, you would have thought I was crazy. Of course, I was listening to some great music (Radio Deluxe - a fabulous jazz program out of New York City, followed by some great dance music - "Jungle Love", "Jungle Boogie" and the like, which I bopped along to as I quilted. I must confess, at one point, I had "Jungle Boogie" on loop. *laughs*)
Anyway - this quilt was what I intended it to be - a whole lot of fun. And hopefully some day, a little princess will dream under it of being princess of her domain - whether it be an African jungle or our wild city streets.
See you then!
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Hey, this is very nice and unique. You can enlarge it too. Lovely
ReplyDeleteOoooh, that rocks! Love the unexpected fabric combinations and the fab quilting.
ReplyDeleteThis is what you can do in just a day? Holy cow!
ReplyDeleteI love your quilting on this! I can see why you have so much fun! Good luck to the lucky winner!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kimberly!
ReplyDeleteIf you want a chance at the prize - you have to make a comment on that post. Good luck! :)
Well...yeah. :) Between design time, experimenting with the blocks, stopping for a snack, making the top, having lunch, beginning the quilting, sitting on the back deck for a while with BSP, and some more quilting, it took me about ten hours all told, but yes - I think it was probably something like 6 hours of actual work. For a baby quilt, I think that's normal, yes? :)
ReplyDelete*hee* Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi Carol,
ReplyDeleteThanks, yes. I was wondering if I had enough fabric to make a twin sized for a bigger princess (physically, that is.) :) Though I have enough of the waxed cotton, and maybe *just* enough of the green and the animal print - I don't think I have enough of the floral. Perhaps I can find something simliar.... either way -I could certainly make another baby one if I have a buyer. :)
lol I have a patient spouse and an ordered mind. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks Alexis! I love your icon! Was that your self-portrait?
ReplyDeleteHi Kimberly - I thought I replied to you earlier, so if I did - ignore this one (but it's not showing up!). Anyway - what I said was thanks - and - if you want to be in on the prize, you have to reply at that post. Cheers,
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Thanks! It is my self portrait.. I still have to quilt it though. I liked your comment system so much I put it on my blog too :-) You're a tech inspiration too!
ReplyDeleteYour "whipped this up" yesterday? Wow! It's fabulous and it's perfect for a little princess.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to be in on the prize. I think it's beautiful and I always look forward to seeing your quilting and not just the quilts.
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