Sheilz

I was asked to make a Scottish themed quilt for a lady in Australia. The plan was for various soft blue shades to be used with some family tartan in the mix. I came up with the idea of a CRM theme for the front with Rabbie Burns on the back to cover Glasgow where she grew up and Alloa in Ayrshire where her family originates from. Before moving to Australia the family lived across the road from Queen's Cross Church, now the CRM Museum and Centre. The centre panel is an elevation of this building which of course was designed by the man himself. The couple in the doorway is Amy and her husband. They were actually married in Australia so I took a huge dollop of poetic justice in relocating the wedding!
The quilt top is not quite what I set out to make but I've promised to confine the back to the soft colours and hues of the Ayrshire countryside. I spent two days trying to match up the tartan fabric where they cross over. It drove me nuts and three times it went wrong. It was marginally less wrong on my fourth attempt so covered the worst of it with tartan hearts! I didn't know what else to do!? The tartan is fabulous but it's much more difficult to work with than cotton. I'm not really sure if the experience has made me any wiser about how to work with this lightweight wool fabric!

Grandma Peg

Very nice quilt!

Sheilz

*poetic licence not justice!

kindleaddict63

Love it....actually love all things Macintosh, especially the jewellery. Job well done!

QuiltnNan

you did a great job

debcavan

Very very cool. I love the couple in the doorway.

DOTTYMO

It is soooo so Scotish. I have just made a knitting bag with all tartan fabric so I understand the frustration of matching. I gave up as the bag was for me.

Beautiful quilt .

gsbuffalo

great job.

QuiltMom2

Wow!! You need to be sure there's a photograph available for display when a Rennie retrospective display is done somewhere. Talk about artists influencing artists!

QUILTNMO

you did s nice job!!