Coddiwomple
64 x 82
It's a finish!
(Coddiwomple: travel in a purposeful manner toward a vague destination)
It started with 12 orphan blocks - those Whirlagigs (or St. Bridget's Crosses) that were leftover from a quilt finished in 2010. They were originally swapped blocks made in batiks on black backgrounds.
I added some strings, some HSTs from the Parts Department. I blogged about the whole process back in September 2019 when I made the top. I even added a simple border which is a rarity here.
I quilted it with unmarked and unevenly spaced vertical lines. I used gray thread on top.
I used a bowl full of left over bobbins in a variety of thread colors.
I used a black backing so the colors showed up on back even though you can't see the colors very well in this photo.
I just quilted lines until I ran out of bobbin threads. Then I decided that was enough quilting.
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Beautiful quilt, beautifully finished.
ReplyDeleteThe whole quilt is beautifully put together!
ReplyDeleteCoddiwomple is a fun, colorful quilt. Congrats on this finish! Sandy at sewhigh.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteStriking - I love it! The name is clever, too. I really like your use of leftover bobbins for the quilting on the back.
ReplyDeleteWonderful!! And you used up all those bobbin ends, too.
ReplyDeleteI love that word - I've been waiting to use it as a quilt name but you beat me to it! Love using multiple bobbin colors to use up the thread - you inspire me in so many ways. This is another marvelous quilt finish - CONGRATULATIONS!
ReplyDeleteI love your completely organic "methods" for sewing up fabric and for quilting :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful as always!
Very striking quilt. I love the half-square triangle sashings! ---"Love"
ReplyDeleteYou come up with the greatest names for your quilts! Love this one -- the name AND the quilt.
ReplyDeleteSimply the BEST! Colour, colour and more colour. Exciting to look at and amazing that you used up all those orphan blocks, HSTs and all the ends of bobbins for a wonderful quilt finish.
ReplyDeleteLove your quilt :)
ReplyDeleteOMG!! What a fun quilt! It sounds like you've been taking Quilt Naming classes from Quilt Diva Julie. I absolutely LOVE that you used "EVERY bobbin in the bowl" for the quilting!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, that's a good a way to decide you've done enough quilting. Love the name and what it means. Seems appropriate in 2020.
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I love the quilting concepts here: using bright, random, contrasting bobbins against a black background and then letting the length of those bobbins determine the density, a vague goal. Since I'm sure your machine sews with purpose, even the quilting was a coddiwomple :)
ReplyDeletegreat finish and I love your vocabulary
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love the whole process of this quilt and most especially it's name! I did ready the Sept 2019 post of how the quilt came about too. Also, a great idea to use up any colour of bobbins on the back for a super fun finish. Thank you so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching me a fun word...love the sound of it! Great way to use up the bobbin bits, too! :)
ReplyDeleteI love that you used your thread as your stopping point!!!!!! "Wellup, I guess I'm out of thread, so that's enough of that!" Looks great!
ReplyDeleteOh! I LOVE this quilt! Everything about it from the hsts to the bobbin threads to the name! Perfect!
ReplyDelete(And thanks for the new vocabulary word too!)
Fun quilt but where did you get that name?
ReplyDeleteLove the quilt and the quilting
ReplyDeleteI do like your idea on the quilting, using up all the threads on the random bobbins, great idea!
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunning quilt!! A beautiful mix of colour and a super name.
ReplyDeleteWow! Such an amazing quilt! All that color!
ReplyDeleteThis quilt is stunning! Nice job!
ReplyDeleteAmazing!!! it looks like you finally arrived at your destination!! LOVE it!
ReplyDeleteThank you for expanding my vocabulary! I knew catawampus, but we grew up calling it cattywampus. And I love this quilt! It is happy and exuberant, maybe a bit impetuous, too!
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