What Was in the Hoop

It's a finish!

Peppermint Twist

50 x 62.5

Hand quilted

I made big Dresden Plate quilt blocks and trimmed them square to 13 inches unfinished. I finished the top back in October 2018. 

Hand quilted with perle cotton #12 in concentric circles alternating between red and white threads. I buttonhole stitched around the polka dot center circles. The red threads don't show up as well as the white circles. You may think it a lot of work to hand quilt on busy fabrics where quilting doesn't show up as much but I wanted each block to have those concentric circles and I knew I had more control over quilting by hand than on my DSM. It has the motion and texture that was my goal and I enjoy hand quilting more than quilting on my DSM. 

The backing is pieced yardage that's been aging in my box of Christmas fabrics. I figured it is not too Christmas-y looking and would be suitable as a backing for this quilt with the red and white and circles. Plus I've been trying to use up those Christmas fabrics so win-win. 

 And the binding was a peppermint stripe. 

What's In The Hoop?

Now that it is cooler I thought I should get something pin basted and in the hoop for hand quilting.  I decided on a smaller quilt (50 x 62.5)-- Peppermint Twist. I finished the top back in October 2018. 

 I pounced on some circles and big stitched in red on the lines and in white in between the lines. 

I think this might be too much quilting and I am thinking of ripping out the white stitching. Before I do that, though, I will mark and stitch another square like I was just thinking. If that looks okay then I will rip out the white on this one. And if it doesn't? Hmmmmm....

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It's a Flimsy! Peppermint Twist

Peppermint Twist

50 x 62.5

The Peppermint Twist song was released in 1961 - the year I turned 9 years old.  My dad was manager of a cafeteria at that time and the cafeteria had a rec(reation) room with a juke box. Mom would sometimes take us kids in to eat dinner at the cafeteria and afterwards we would wait in the rec room for Dad to get off work.  I remember us dancing around to The Twist and The Peppermint Twist and the employees thought we were so cute. 

The Twist was good exercise. If I still did some twisting today I might be as skinny as my shadow. 

 Who knows when I started this. I found a couple of blocks and the peppermint fabrics in my Christmas project box back in January when I decided I wanted to try to use my holiday fabrics this year.  When I get some kind of what I think is a brilliant idea as to how to use certain fabrics I make a few blocks and put them with the fabrics so I don't forget my brilliant idea. 

I had a little problem finding peppermint go-with fabrics in my stash but managed. That green/red orange checked fabric was in with the Halloween fabrics. 

I made a large Dresden block and squared it off. 

 Now I have 80 pieces from the side trimmings I can play with.  I've sewn some of the pieces together and they measure about 13 inches in the center.  If I can find a suitable background or backgrounds (this one is already taken) I could maybe make large lemon peel blocks. Or they could be leaves on giant Jack in the Beanstalk columns of vines...

...or they could be a giant Peppermint Zinnia. But that kind of hurts my eyes right now. 

And speaking of peppermint...

Has anyone else had to drink peppermint extract (or peppermint if available) dissolved in hot water when you had a stomach ache? That was my dad's cure. I quit telling him when I had a stomach ache.  I don't like the taste of peppermint. 

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