It's In Pieces

Quilting starts with pieces.

Spice Berry Cottage

Snips and sorting...

LakesideCottage

stitch in the ditch

Arranging quilt pieces. A new little one will be arriving soon.

away in the manger

Our new little ones Great Gramma

Mum's bias tapes

ready for a binding

In need of a binding. Without enough fabric left to make my own bias tape. 
Mum came to the rescue with a bag full of bindings stored in her sewing box.

Our new little baby will have warm bedding.
All the parts were assembled.

OceansideCastle

Everything is part of the Whole Plan.

EncoreEmporium

Preparing for the Season of Christmas.  The promise of blessings to come.

Quilt Estate Find

I found this beautiful quilt at an estate sale yesterday.  Now I am trying to identify the pattern. When I first looked at it I thought it might be a Hawaiian quilt pattern as it is such a tropical color and has the all over one color on white look. I don't know much about quilts.  I used to. Sadly have forgotten much of what I did know and my mother would help me with this, but well Mom is gone off to quilter's heaven.

A friend on Etsy has found two possibilities.  Star of the West and Star Crescent.  I think it is some variation of these.  I love how the compass is rounded in between the four diamond pieces.

It is large approx. 6 x 6'
The quilting is tiny. There are at least 12 stitches to the inch and it is quilted all over. The back being just as pretty as the front.  I think I have to look at it for a while before I part with it and list it in my ship.

Thanks to Vic from My Victorian Cottage for helping me  She knows a lot about textiles and has some beautiful ones for sale in her Etsy shop.  Like this amazing crazy quilt.

My Victorian Cottage
Crazy Quilt

Isn't that a beautiful crazy quilt?  Take a look in her shop link for more treasures.

Another friend on Etsy thinks it is a variation of Star Crescent or Compass Rose. Either way the beauty and fun of quilting is the endless variation and design between block patterns, color, fabric, applique' and quilting techniques. 
Thanks to Inspired Trader for more ideas you can find her shop here, link she has these big chunks of Amethyst and Quartz in her shop


bookends from
TheInspiredTrader @ Etsy
 

I am totally in love with amethyst and those bookends are heavenly.
Going to go snuggle with that green and white beauty for a little while and then it is off to baby sit the grandbabies...
weelambie/ Anne