This s the Lion Quilt. The picture was taken at the old house. Where there were white walls, more space and more light. Just to show the layout more clearly.
This is how it started, below, I don't remember the date. I think early in 2004. Or even late in 2003. I was still working. I was not blogging. But I was posting pictures on Flickr. Flickr was a photo sharing place before Facebook and other social media. I met a lot of you old friends there.
I was new to taking photos. The colors here are really off. But just to say how it began. It was patchwork. Pieced. I wanted to use up a lot of cloth. These were commercial quilting fabrics mixed in with some cotton yarn dyes were designed for a textile mill I worked for at the time. Hand pieced with my usual method of paperless piecing. But much bigger pieces. Long strips of piecing, sewn together in rows. And the idea? Just a color family. Red. Ish. I had no idea but that.
There was no plan or pattern. The strips of patchwork were not coordinated in any way other than color family. Pieces did not match up, strip to strip. A row of rectangles, a row of small squares, a row of triangles. Maybe I was just practicing. But it did, as I look back, give the base kind of a "Boro" look. A result of the random strips of patching, not intended but noted.
It was not too big. Not because it was meant to be a baby quilt, but because I was commuting to work and I wanted to carry it with me, to sew on the train. I prepped the pieces in the evening. Pieced them on the train.
Oops! the tree guys just came to cut the big dead tree. I will post again later.
4:30 PM aka Later... a nice slice for my son who makes tabletops.
Tired and distracted. Tomorrow then.
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