A Quiltmaker's Album: More ideas for Laura's quilt

Thursday, 8 March 2012

More ideas for Laura's quilt

I'm having second thoughts about Laura's quilt...while I love the colours, and the design, it somehow seems to formal for Laura, and I keep thinking scrappy would be better. I have a drawer full of solids; I also have a stack of about 100 5"-6" squares that I cut from fat quarters; no idea now why I did that, but the colours would make a great scrappy quilt.

This quilt was made from the quilt block "Country Mile" from Quiltmakers 100 blocks vol.1. I drew almost all of those blocks into EQ last spring!

This one is also from a block in Quiltmaker 100 blocks vol. 1., Ahoy.

This quilt is a varation of one called Crossings, in McCalls Quilting, January 2011

And I think this is my favourite so far...birds in the air blocks set in a zig zag setting.

An Album Quilt

Quiltmakers often designed and made an Album quilt to commemorate an occasion in the life of the group, recipient, or maker of the quilt.

The Album quilt would have pieced blocks and/or applique, and often would include signatures. They have been presented as wedding quilts, gifts to leaving religous leaders, and gifts to those who are moving away. The quilt blocks and design would provide memories of the time spent with the quiltmaker(s).

My blog name is A Quiltmaker's Album because I see my blog postings as forming one large album quilt, each blog posting as a block to remember my quilting adventures.