It's a top!
Wild and Crazy Orphan Ernestine
I forgot to take her measurements but she's somewhere around 40 x 52.
Orphan Ernestine is made up of all kinds of blocks from a lot of different folks.
I tried to use blocks in a similar color range and value and blocks that were mostly stringy looking. Then I added in some blocks with squares and rectangles.
I added a "border" to the top and bottom with a striped fabric and then I dug into a little bin of miscellaneous 4 inch (finished) blocks I have to make another border for top and bottom.
I also added in some strips I had left over after making my warm and cool Chinese Coin quilts I finished up last week.
Whew! That was a tough one to put together with all those different sized blocks, bits and pieces
And sew on...
10 comments:
Nice work getting all those varied blocks to play so well together!! It really came out beautifully--hugs, Julierose
Wild and crazy it truly is!
Now, that’s a real orphan quilt! No particular theme, blocks of all different sizes, styles and colours. Amazing!
I can tell from here that Ernestine is always the life of the party! What a fun gal!
So bright and playful. Nice job!
It nice to see the orphans finally leaving the orphanage behind and finding their forever homes. This one is obviously a bit of a wild child.
Wild and crazy indeed! I love how you manage to combine all those different blocks and bits into a beautiful quilt.
It's amazing how you can take so many different components and make a wonderful scrappy quilt top! Well done!
Your orphan quilts are so, so good to see, love what you're doing with all the orphans. One day I'll pull out my box full of pieces and see if I can create something.
What a great job you did of getting all these blocks to such a fabulous finish! Awesome!
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