It's a top!
Orphan Imogene
42 x 48
"Orphans" has been the theme in my sewing room for September and October. A lot of orphan blocks needed to be put into comfort quilts. As I've been making the tops I've been naming them like hurricanes. I still have a lot of orphan blocks so not sure how far through the alphabet I will get!
This one started with the block in the middle and bottom right. Those two came from other folks. I also had an old 12 inch block of squares in the orphanage (middle bottom) to add to the mix. It has Strawberry Shortcake in it and she hasn't aged a bit. Then the top left Broken Dishes block was made with four 6 inch HSTs someone gave me.
The rest of the blocks were made from miscellaneous 4 inch blocks from the Parts Department.
I had two different small pieces of pink/white polka dot fabrics I used for sashing and a scrap of a strip I used for the cornerstones. When I finished the top with just the sashing I had just a small piece of the pink polka dot and the stripe left so decided to lengthen the quilt a bit and made some Flying Geese.
Imogene is in the pink! Really, really pink!
And sew on...
7 comments:
What a hoot you are. . .naming your quilts in the pattern of naming hurricanes. You are a force for good! What a great use of orphan blocks which aren't orphaned any more. They look like a great family!
Great collection of pink blocks. What colour next i wonder?
I love love love those pink/white polka dots! Fabulous sashing idea!
How could you not smile after looking at those pinks and polka dots?
I am beyond impressed with your Hurricane (named) Comfort quilt tops --- it must feel SO good to turn all those orphan blocks into cohesive flimsies!
Now, that's pink!!
I'm not a pink kind of girl, but I do love the polka-dot of two different sizes in the sashing. Well done. ;^)
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