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my museum quilt
I finished the top this afternoon:
This is the quilt that is going in the Job Carr Cabin Museum. I'm going to have a quilt of mine in a museum, and that tickles me no end. Never mind that this quilt is to replace the genuine antique currently on the bed in the cabin so that the school kids who come to tour the cabin can lie on the straw mattress and rope "springs" and see what it feels like while the antique is safely hung on the wall out of reach.
It's 54" square, which fits the bed with a bit of overhang on the sides and at the foot. The pattern is a variation of the traditional Corn and Beans block. There are eighteen different prints, all authentic Civil War-era reproductions, since the original cabin (the museum is a replica built in 2000) was built in 1865. No florals by request of the museum staff, and utterly different from my normal palette, which runs more to jewel tones. And one place where two pieces of the same fabric are next to each other [sigh]. I checked every time I laid it out, from half-square triangle unit to block to strip to completed top, making sure that no two pieces of the same fabric were next to each other. But I managed to do it, anyway. I guess it's my Amish mistake ("only God can make something perfect"). See if you can find it.
The quilting is just going to be your standard crosshatching, diagonally both ways across each square. Simple, straightforward, authentic, and it doesn't have to be marked [g].
After I finish quilting the website quilt (see icon).
This is the quilt that is going in the Job Carr Cabin Museum. I'm going to have a quilt of mine in a museum, and that tickles me no end. Never mind that this quilt is to replace the genuine antique currently on the bed in the cabin so that the school kids who come to tour the cabin can lie on the straw mattress and rope "springs" and see what it feels like while the antique is safely hung on the wall out of reach.
It's 54" square, which fits the bed with a bit of overhang on the sides and at the foot. The pattern is a variation of the traditional Corn and Beans block. There are eighteen different prints, all authentic Civil War-era reproductions, since the original cabin (the museum is a replica built in 2000) was built in 1865. No florals by request of the museum staff, and utterly different from my normal palette, which runs more to jewel tones. And one place where two pieces of the same fabric are next to each other [sigh]. I checked every time I laid it out, from half-square triangle unit to block to strip to completed top, making sure that no two pieces of the same fabric were next to each other. But I managed to do it, anyway. I guess it's my Amish mistake ("only God can make something perfect"). See if you can find it.
The quilting is just going to be your standard crosshatching, diagonally both ways across each square. Simple, straightforward, authentic, and it doesn't have to be marked [g].
After I finish quilting the website quilt (see icon).