jemcnutt

What a great pattern. Thanks so much!!

Jois

You're pretty brave!

littlehud

That is a cool quilt. I want to try one. Thanks for the instructions.

ejudy

I like your version better. Quite colorful and nicely done.

raptureready

thanks!

harryb1834

I just signed up for a Youtube account and downloaded a few videos from our digital camera. You will be surprised how easy it is to do a quick video and post it for the entire world to see. I hate using computers, but this was easy. Try it on the directions, make it a mini-class. You will be amazed at the responses. ... just a thought.

It's a beautiful quilt!!!

Harry

noveltyjunkie

Another big fan of this quilt! I am impressed how you took the idea and made it your own. Changing the proportions was a master stroke. I would have been scared to try that, but you have shown it can be done.

Yours is way nicer than the one on the website, IMO, and it is always good to know you have something unique (well, you did, until we all decided we wanted to copy it....)

I totally agree that using one colourway in each frame adds to the effect. It is so fresh looking- I can feel the warm summer breeze as I look at it! (It deserves some of those arty photo shots you see in the magazines- being aired on a lush green hedge somewhere with fabulous props hinting of a lifestyle we can only dream of......)

raptureready

Thank you. Anyone trying to copy it exactly would be hard pressed to do so. Most of those fabrics had been in my stash for years, some came from my mother's stash and she died in 2003. But the idea of putting the frames together and using the extra strips for the border anyone is welcome to. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's done that. When I made my CW era quilt for a BOM, I used the left over fabric, cut strips and sewed them together for my binding. None of them are the same length, they're just all hodge-podged and some of the women said, "Oh my goodness, I'd never have thought of doing something like that but I will now. Thank you for coming up with that idea." I told them that I didn't come up with it, that my mother had done it for years and years, and that other people had done it way before her. It's kind of like when people claim copyright to a block---if you look long enough and hard enough, you'll find that block or something really similar in a old book somewhere. There are some that are new but not that many, IMO, unless they're applique or paper-pieced.