Monday 3 February 2014

Red and White ...

... Inspired by the Red and White Quilt exhibition in New York a few years back, and also by the EQ challenge, SewCalGal is holding a Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges during 2014.  You can follow the link here to read all about it.

Between 3 Feb and 9 Feb, she is hosting a linky party called Show It where people are invited to show any red and white quilts they have which were made prior to 2014 and you know me, I can never resist an invitation to a party, so I thought I'd join in.

This quilt is called Red Sprinkles and I apologise to my regular visitors who have seen it before.

I designed this quilt using EQ7 during 2013 and used some red fat quarters I had bought a few years earlier when I was on holiday in New England. It measures about 50" x 72".  Originally it was going to be larger, but then I realised that I did not have enough of the border fabric for a larger quilt. See, that's what happens when I buy fabric just 'cos I like it - it's much safer to design the quilt first, and then buy the fabric. I (or rather Big Bertha) quilted it using a sort of bubbly pattern with a variegated red/purple/gold thread and here is a close up so you can see the thread I hope.


I was going to show you my Snowmen quilt next.  This is a redwork quilt which I made a couple of years ago, but would you believe I cant find any photos of it, nor can I find the actual quilt, but I can show you a picture of it as I was assembling it,

I wonder which cupboard I've tidied that into?  

Thinking of redwork, there is this one too


Finally, I was going to show my Red Rings (formerly known as Red Wreaths, and before that known as Christmas Wreaths,) but I realised there were two problems with that one.  Firstly, the border is not just red and white and secondly I finished it just last week, so I cant. I did blog about it a couple of posts back though.)

17 comments:

  1. I am identifying with your little reindeer...I look just like that when I enter an awesome quilt shop!

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  2. Love your redwork. The snowmen quilt is really adorable.

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  3. CUTE! I love the look of the red Sprinkled all over your quilt. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Your red blocks look like they are floating - nice colour balance.

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  5. Love the sprinkle quilt. LOL Lost the redwork quilt huh? Obviously you have lots of cupboards. Love the little reindeer stitchery.

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  6. Red Sprinkles is wonderful. I love the quilting too!

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  7. Red Sprinkles reminds me of New Year's Eve - bubbles, smiles and cheers.

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  8. I love your Red Sprinkles quilt. Beautiful design and such a cute name, very appropriate to this design. And your redwork is gorgeous too. Of course, I'm a bit partial to Rudolf.

    Thanks for sharing.

    SewCalGal
    www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

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  9. Great quilts, got to say that red and white is my fav colour combo!

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  10. Thanks for sharing your red & white work, love it.

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  11. would love to see the red work quilt i have a book on red work it must be in the same black hole as your quilt as i cannot find it !!!
    will you be at sit and sew 15th feb !!

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  12. I love the bubble quilt pattern you used on the quilt, and LOL for the Missing redwork, it can't be gone too far.

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  13. I had to go to the linked site and read about the challenges. Are you going to design a quilt?

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  14. Hehehe. I'm sure now that you've written your Red and White quilt post the actual quilt will appear from its hiding place. I like them both and thanks for sharing.

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  15. Love your red and white projects--especially the snow men--very cute! I lose quilts too--they are stashed all over my house and I forget where! I'm envious of those organized people that keeps notes on all their projects--I just make 'em and stash 'em (or sometimes donate them)!

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  16. Gonna start calling you the Christmas lady. Love your quilt and stitchery...

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  17. Love your red and white quilts and have been doing blog catchup on my laptop with an old windows system and just worked out how to comment.
    Have a lovely weekend and take care.

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