Streak o Lightnin
by
Janice Pope
It was being offered as a class at my local quilt shop.....
and I just couldn't settle on a colorway. We didn't sell jelly rolls at the time.. so no help there.... several folks went with a lovely deep blue/white theme.. but I just wasn't feeling it.
But I WAS feeling a fabric.... which is how things often begin with me. It's name was Christmas Rose.... but it was clearly a poppy. That aggravates me to no end.. isn't it silly?
But it was red and green with a little gilt on the edges..... and I do like sparkle!
And, since they were poppies...... well, the other color needed to be my yellow brick road..... so I went with about 8 shades of gold & yellow. And changed it up.... I wanted the stripes to go vertical rather than horizontal...
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| quilt top |
I also ended up skipping the triangle point border because the quilt ended up pretty BIG! I did think the border is a brilliant way to use up all the little angle points I cut off the strips...... but I am stitching the triangles into squares for my scrap collection. And I had plenty of gold strips left to stitch together for a scrappy binding.
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| quilting done and binding started.... ready to finish the binding by hand and the label |
I am pretty proud of this beauty.... completely stitched on my little sewing machine.... and finished!
Always there to remind me that happiness is right here in my own backyard!
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Post Script..... When I made this quilt, of course my mind was continually filled with the story of the Wizard of Oz.... and I was reminded every time I worked on it [or even looked at it afterward] of my beloved daughter, Brenna. My intention was for her to have the quilt eventually... when I was tired of it...
I didn't get tired of it... but my girl bought a new house... her very first! And this quilt - all of a sudden - was no longer mine, but hers! I still need to make her a quilt from start to finish.... but she has the first of her inherited ones!
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