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I love the civil war prints also and if it was me I would go for it! I think it would be a stunning quilt. I never got into the thirties materials. I always gravitate toward the civil war and things along that line.
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Just saw a beautiful quilt with a lot of little squares in the photos section posted by terri bb. The subject of the post was "my take on arkansas :)" and yes, it was all lower case and included a smilie face made with a colon and parenthesis not a real smilie that this one will probably change to when I post it, but not the quotation marks. I think you could even use the squares to make the parts with the slanted cream colored pieces. Start with a large cream square and two small print squares and sew across the diagonal of the small squares and trim off the corners. Really shouldn't be too hard to figure out with your sized squares.
Now I went back and it was changed to a real smilie face, so it may or may not be with the colon/parenthesis. :( |
Your original plan and fabric choices would be wonderful - all the more eye catching because of the different look. Dunster is right Robin: "Call it "grandmother's fall garden" instead."
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Originally Posted by ragqueen03
(Post 5317555)
I love the civil war prints also and if it was me I would go for it! I think it would be a stunning quilt. I never got into the thirties materials. I always gravitate toward the civil war and things along that line.
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Originally Posted by BuzzinBumble
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Your original plan and fabric choices would be wonderful - all the more eye catching because of the different look. Dunster is right Robin: "Call it "grandmother's fall garden" instead."
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Originally Posted by MarthaT
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Just saw a beautiful quilt with a lot of little squares in the photos section posted by terri bb. The subject of the post was "my take on arkansas :)" and yes, it was all lower case and included a smilie face made with a colon and parenthesis not a real smilie that this one will probably change to when I post it, but not the quotation marks. I think you could even use the squares to make the parts with the slanted cream colored pieces. Start with a large cream square and two small print squares and sew across the diagonal of the small squares and trim off the corners. Really shouldn't be too hard to figure out with your sized squares.
Now I went back and it was changed to a real smilie face, so it may or may not be with the colon/parenthesis. :( Wow, I went and looked at the quilt picture. It is stunning and you are right - would be a great use of all my squares. Now, I have so many beautiful options and I just want to make them all!!! This is when I freeze up, afraid to make the wrong choice and just sit and look at the fabric forever dreaming. |
If you still like the fabrics and want to do the GFG I would make it as planned. Before I started my GFG I surfed the web and found lots and lots of GFG that were not the traditional 30's GFG. All were stunning in their own way. I've seen beautiful GFG's done in all black and white, in all batiks, I think a civil war fabric GFG would be beautiful.
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Would a postage stamp quilt work, i love cw fabric also and did a lap this way.
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I love your idea of using the CW fabrics for a GFG quilt, but you could also consider making a Cathedral Window quilt using all your 2 1/2" sqs. I know you have more sqs cut out than needed for a Cathedral Window quilt, but you could make more than one, lol!
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I recently made a scrappy quilt that I think would look great in the fabrics you described. I wrote up piecing instructions because I taught it at a local shop and I included four options on how to pieces the quilt, including using individually cut 2.5" squares. If you like the quilt and are interested in the instructions, feel free to PM me. Also, I'd love to see what you decide to do, so be sure to post pictures. Good luck!!
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