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This is a blog to show off my needlework, mainly crazy quilting, beading and crochet. It makes me happy to create these things and even more happy to share the fun with friends. Pictures of my beading projects are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/37765046@N00/sets/72057594083565963/

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Scrap Block Quilt is Finished

I finished the scrap block quilt. It's about 24 inches square. I like it. While adding embellishments, I decided to put words in a patch. The ones that came to me, for reasons I don't fathom, were "Always Coming Home." This is the title of one of my favorite Ursula K. LeGuin novels. It's based in the northwest of the USA in the far future in a culture developed after a catastrophe. I AM a science fiction reader. The culture is somewhat based on native American
cultures in which gift giving is important, especially gifts made by the giver, including poetry and stories. One such gift is a poem ending in the line "Be always coming home." I printed the poem onto fabric and put it on the back of the quilt. To finish the quilt, I used the French facing technique Allison Aller described in her CQMagOnline article as I planned and It worked beautifully.



I hope you have had a wonderful 4th of July celebration. Glenna and I went for a walk in Greenbelt Park. It's a small forest with a campground in the middle, inside the the Capitol Beltway. We didn't check out the campground to see how many were taking advantage of such a convenient spot as a base for visiting the festivities in Washington, DC. But, we did see deer. Glenna was off the lead and she took off in chase. I feared I'd have a hard time finding her, but she returned when they got away and, showing her hound heritage, she excitedly started tracking the scent. This was her first trip to this kind of park. She loved it. I had a job getting her out of the car when we got home.



5 comments:

  1. My favorite gifts are those hand made by Friends. I keep them forever. Who knows where the store bought one's ended up!

    Very Beautiful Piece and sentiment!

    Kerri

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  2. This poem is so lovely I had to save it. Your block turned out really great and I especially like the frame around it. I've been wanting to try Allie's backing method so I'm glad I have a friend close by who knows what she's doing. I'll see you in August!

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  3. What a lovely piece...and the poem is so heartfelt.
    I'm glad that article was useful for you, too...Somehow I just don't think CQs need bindings... ;-) Your work is wonderful.

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  4. Bobbi,
    your scrap block turned out beautifully! I love the poem on the back, too. Does each motif you used have some personal significance? The horse had me wondering....

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  5. No, the motifs have no special significance. I was emulating the old-fashioned Victorian crazy quilts with a variety of images. Thanks, everyone for your kind words. Hmm. Maybe a quilt based on Ursula K. Le Guin's works would be fun. Actually, she has a lot of drawings in "Alway Coming Home" that would be great on a crazy quilt. Can't start one now, though.

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