Because I make a lot of blankets for Project Linus, I'm always looking for ideas to make quick quilts. I've tried row quilts, but they never look as good as I'd hoped. On the one below, I even used rick rack on the black strips separating the fabrics to add a little pizzazz, but it still wasn't quite what I was looking for. The fabric was donated by a cool girl who had her own little fabric store in a little resort town. I guess these patterns weren't big sellers, but they went together well. I guess I didn't use batting on this one...hmmmm.
This was another attempt at simple and modular. The best thing about this blanket was that the fabric was donated by a woman who had held onto it for years before finally realizing she'd never sew a quilt and so donated it to Project Linus. When I sent her a picture of this blanket, she was just thrilled, and so then I was just thrilled. And that doesn't even count the good feelings of knowing it went to a child in need.
Here's another that seemed simple...but the seams didn't match up from the two columns. I hate it when that happens! I hid it as best I could with a thin sashing between the two columns and rick rack down the sash. I guess I was in a rick rack phase. My only complaints about rick rack are that you never seem to get enough of it in those little packages, and stitching straight through it always makes me feel like I'm driving on a really curvy road, and it's kind of dizzying.
So back to scrapbooking. It must have been in my pursuit of embroidery patterns that I ended up scrolling through a scrapbooking site (some stamps can make for good embroidery patterns; just sayin'). I found some sample page layouts for a scrap book that I thought could work well for a simple, modern quilt. Here are a few.
These templates can be found here: http://bearnecessitiesscraps.com
I thought the layout under the number 10 could look good with embroidered squares in the three middle boxes and coordinating fabric around them. Or these layouts could work with panels, which are usually too skinny to be practical. I just did something with a panel...too bad I forgot about these layouts. Oh, well. I will post the panel blanket once I get it done. Right now I'm in the middle of a very purple quilt, so I'd better get back to it!
I thought the layout under the number 10 could look good with embroidered squares in the three middle boxes and coordinating fabric around them. Or these layouts could work with panels, which are usually too skinny to be practical. I just did something with a panel...too bad I forgot about these layouts. Oh, well. I will post the panel blanket once I get it done. Right now I'm in the middle of a very purple quilt, so I'd better get back to it!
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