Every now and again I make a baby quilt with a title from a nursery rhyme. It's just a thing I've been doing for six or seven years. I love the idea of baby quilts and nursery rhymes, and I can't seem to let it go. Perhaps I should go back and figure out how many I've made in this series. This little quilt is about 40" X 40" and uses quarter log cabin blocks, an idea I snagged from Cynthia Brunz of Quilting is more fun than housework.
After I asked for opinions on layout (here), and got the same answer from almost every respondent, I had to go with this one.
Because the setting has a medallion feel to it, I decided to focus on it and quilted a large grid pattern. Then to set off the grid, I quilted a square around it.
The original idea was to use up some of those blue scraps and practice some of my quilting motifs, so in the blocks around the medallion I quilted different motifs. I also used a bit of yardage from the stash for backing and pieces of leftover navy for the binding.
Because the weather is so unpredictable, I quickly went outside to snap pictures on my new orange Adirondack chair that Richard made a few weeks ago. Doesn't that orange just pop? Wait till you see the rest of the chairs! They look like a bed of huge flowers!
But that's a post for another time. This is a post about the quilt, so here are the stats...
| Quilt Stats | ||
| Name: | Come Out to Play | |
| Size: | 40" X 40" | |
| Fabrics: | Scrap fabrics from stash | |
| Background: | n/a | |
| Binding: | scrap fabrics left from blocks | |
| Pattern: | Quarter Log Cabin | |
| Quilting: | practice quilting / variety of motifs | |
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6 comments:
Although I meant to, I did not include the nursery rhyme!
Boys and girls come out to play,
The moon does shine as bright as day;
Come with a hoop, and come with a call,
Come with a good will or not at all.
Loose your supper, and loose your sleep,
Come to your playfellows in the street;
Up the ladder and down the wall.
A halfpenny loaf will serve us all.
But when the loaf is gone, what will you do?
Those who would eat must work - 'tis true.
Lovely finish. Fun to link it to a rhyme.
And I do love the colour in your chair. Can't wait to see the rest.
Lovely baby quilt, especially photographed on that orange chair. Well done!
so pretty, I love it!!!
How funny, I know that rhyme, of course, but we have a different final couplet
: 'you bring milk and I'll bring flour, and we'll have a pudding in half an hour'. Lovely finish and Richard's orange chair is fantastic.
Love monochromatic quilts. That is one lucky baby with a scrappy lovely quilt. I do not know the poem but I understand the sentiment because so many times my quilts are associated with Bollywood songs.
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