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I probably would not have picked a monochromatic project for myself, but I do know someone who loves one color. My son is obsessed with the color red. The first quilt I completed was a baby quilt for my niece. It seemed appropriate that my second quilt would go to my son. Once I settled on red I realized that there aren’t that many good red fabrics and that getting reds to work together is really hard. I had discovered Robert Kaufman’s Quilter's Linen for Challenge #1 and decided to start with the Red and the Crimson for Challenge #2. I then searched high and low for fabrics that had a red print on a white background. There weren’t many to choose from. I selected two different sizes of dots and the Monaluna Mingle Rings and Cobblestones. I then dyed the print fabrics with iDye. I experimented with Crimson, Fire Red and True Red. The True Red worked best with the Quilter’s Linen colors.
I did not like the way one of the dot fabrics dyed and I eliminated it. I created this pattern because my son really likes things in patterns of three. We have three members in our family and he sees everything from flowers to animals to clouds in patterns with a mama, a papa and a son. I first started out with improvisational piecing and I thought it looked pretty good, but I didn’t like the way the Cobblestones worked with the other fabrics so I eliminated it. The improve approach did not look very good with only two solids and two prints. So, I came up with a pattern. I rotated each fabric through spaces one, two and three in each square from top to bottom and every other square I rotated one turn clockwise. Each block has one strip each of the two Quilter’s Linen colors and one strip of a print. The quilt is 45”X45” and it has five eight inch blocks per row.
The piecing of the front and back went well and I was excited to quilt it. I decided that this was the perfect project to master free motion quilting—red on red. I spent last week repeatedly sewing and ripping out sections of quilting. The shape of the stippling was great, but the stitch was awful. I don’t think my machine is free thinking enough for free motion. In the interest of finishing the quilt by the deadline I switched to a walking foot on Thursday and I improved my way through wonky right angles around the center of the quilt.
I sat down to work on the next section of the quilt on Friday and I quickly discovered that my feed dogs were malfunctioning. I could only get a 6.0 stitch and if I could get it to go in reverse, it kept going in reverse. I called and then went in to the all too familiar repair shop. My machine needed a part that would have to be sent and I wasn’t going to get the machine back until two days before the end of the contest. I spent three sessions sewing at Modern Domestic over the weekend and finished all of the quilting. I am so thankful for the gift certificates I had previously won at Modern Domestic, which covered all of my sewing time. My machine was not ready as scheduled, but I was able to use one of the sales floor machines at the repair shop to bind my quilt yesterday morning while my son was in preschool.
I finished hand binding late this afternoon and I threw the quilt in the wash. The early evening light was less than flattering, but it was not raining. It was really exciting to stand back and finally look at the quilt hanging on the fence. A quilt really is more than a sum of its pieces. I worried as I was working that I wouldn’t really like it when it was done because as thrilled as my son has been about it throughout the process (even though he doesn’t even know that it is for him yet), I wouldn’t have picked red for myself. And, I have had to clear so many stumbling blocks along the way that I was concerned that I might look at the quilt and just feel frustrated.
Instead, I am filled with gratitude when I look at this quilt. I am so grateful for all the help I received along this journey. My chiropractor and massage therapist worked wonders to help heal my neck and get me back to sewing more comfortably. My family gave me time to work on the quilt. And in these last days, I was able to use two different sewing machines that made finishing the quilt actually possible. I am grateful for the inspiration to begin this project and I am grateful that I have a beautiful quilt to give my son. Thank you.
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