KalamaQuilts

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KalamaQuilts

October November December!

osewme

Oh, I absolutely love the beginnings of this quilt. The little "stars" in the fabric give it a lot of pizazz and the insert strip for the low temperatures is really nice. I'll be watching this as it goes along because some day I'd like to make one. Will you be putting in a thin sashing to separate the months?

KalamaQuilts

no, I'm restricted by the size of the space I wish to hang it. I'm still thinking as I'm going along too... I was born on Oct 28, and looking at that first row, I'm thinking of starting the quilt on the 28th day rather than the 1st as it is now, and moving the early part of october to the bottom of the quilt.
I was going to do one for our marriage year too, but it will be a bookend quilt to this one on the loft rail, so size again plays a part. I want to use hearts for the high temperatures, and the background for the lows, but to make a heart visible I need bigger blocks, so I'm just going to make one for the month rather than 12 months. Maybe set the blocks on point just to complicate my life

Peckish

Oh wow, it's beautiful Sharyn!!

KalamaQuilts

starting on my 7th month, October - March finished.
Dirt was new when I started quilting, and I've Never made a quilt with a line of fabric before. I now understand why people do, each and every block I add I say ooOoooo, pretty! Because the colors all look good together. I know I'll never become a (eeu...quilt police words, but) matchy-matchy quilter, I'm way too fond of pulling 8 oranges or 15 reds out of my stash. But...oooOooo pretty!

osewme

Absolutely amazing. I love the "sparkle" to it with the little starlets.

KalamaQuilts

appropriate to my birth year quilt, I'm a believer that I came from stardust and will return to stardust.

aashley333

I love the fabric you chose for your project! I've been playing with a design in Excel. I went back to my birth year, 1960, and started recording highs and lows for my birthdate each year! I wanted to make it personal to me. work in progress. Input welcome. Ignore info typed in cells, and look at colors for each row/year. Day's High is main color , and Low is the 2 squares. Possible dividing strip every decade? It would have to be 1" strips.

KalamaQuilts

fun idea, that day each year. Might be a bit of a monotone unless you've lived lots of different places. I've seen a number with divider strips. Also many that include something like cloud cover/rain/snow/etc.
I want to make another but not the whole year, I've decided on the full month we got married, such a pretty month in the PNW. and much larger blocks I'm kicking around the idea of recycled men's shirts for the highs and something girly for the lows, since it won't take nearly as much fabric and not a wide range of shades.

I've finished assembling my birth year except for the title row. More complicated than just one year in progress I'm going to do it in pen work since I don't have an embroidery machine, and spent some time the last two days playing around with fonts to fit the space. Fun! A friend said I needed to scratch out the info because someone could steal my identity. Who'd want to be as old as me but I suppose it is common sense.