Teal & Orange

 

Here is the Teal block.

And here is the Orange one. I really had to search through my stash and bins to find light orange fabrics, or fabrics that would "read" as light orange.

Here they all are together, in no particular order. As you can see they are all different sizes. At some point I will need to trim them down, but not yet.

I have removed the bright one because it overpowered the others, and also the dotted one, which didn't hold its own among these.  I have fabrics set aside for a red one, and that's up next.

I'll have to go through my stash to see if there are any colors I have missed. I might be able to do a light brown (or beige?) one, and maybe a gray one, but I don't know yet. Maybe I can make a white with colors if I don't use fabrics that are as bold as the original one.

At any rate, if I need to make another yellow or green or blue or pink block, I'll do it. I don't need this quilt to have only one block of each color.

I do like the irregular shapes of these too. We'll see what happens. It's so nice not to have to fuss.

Missing U

 

I have already started making slabs. Here is the first one. White with dots. It's about 14 inches, and it needs to be bigger. But that's OK. I have lots of fabric.

This is the second one. It is White with Black.

This is the third one. It is White with Colors. It is about 16 - 17" or so. I will trim it down whenever I figure out how big I want the blocks to be.

These are fun. Not a lot of thinking involved!

I made a Missing U quilt years ago and called it MHT2MEM because I gave it to my pal Julie. The title refers to the airport name for the Manchester NH airport (MHT) and MEM, which is the designation for Memphis TN, where Julie lives. The 2 ought to be understood. The quilt went from MHT to MEM.

You can read about it here and here.

MHT2MEM

Almost five years ago Julie visited me at my house, we went to see quilts from the Pilgrim & Roy collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, we visited the Zimmerman House in Manchester NH which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and we spent some time sewing this quilt. You can read about it here.

I gave the quilt top to Julie and she actually put  her clothes in a box to ship home UPS so she could fit the quilt top in her suitcase to take with her.

The quilt was quilted and Julie added the black and white piano key binding, but I had never seen the finished quilt. I asked Julie if I could borrow it to show at my talk to the Rising Star Quilt Guild on March 26th.

When I opened the box and unfolded the quilt I was struck by how beautiful it was.

"It's more beautiful than I remember" I texted Julie.

Her reply was a smiling emoji surrounded by hearts.

Julie and I even collaborated on the signature panel on the back. I made the letters and the numbers in the date, and she make the tall pink bird. I made the short blue bird. (I am shorter than Julie.)



By the way, the quilt's title, MHT2MEM means "Manchester to Memphis." MHT is the three letter abbreviation for the airport in Manchester NH (where I lived) and MEM is the abbreviation for the airport in Memphis, where Julie lives.