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A long time in the making

A long time in the making

Here is my best example that you can think of a great quilt idea in 30 seconds that can take years to complete.   Click on the photo for a slightly larger image.

I got inspired by Ruth B. McDowell’s book Pieced Vegetables when it first came out, back when I lived in Colorado, more than seven years ago.  I created the lettuce in the lower left corner in Colorado, along with the freezer paper templates for the rest of this quilt.  I remember bringing the green and blue lettuces to a quilt guild meeting not long after I moved to the Midwest, in about 2003.  I completed the last lettuce (the red one) at our WAQG retreat in 2008.  Last night I finished the quilting.

This quilt contains some fabric that I personally hand dyed, in the few times I’ve done some dyeing, but most of the fabrics are commercial quilting fabrics, of a variety of ages.

I’m still trying to decide about the final title for this quilt. It needs to have some reference to Ruth McDowell, since I used her pattern for the lettuces, and perhaps it should reference Andy Warhol, for the coloring influence as well.  Any help out there, readership?  There’s a gift card in it for you, if you come up with the best name!

5 comments

1 Ingrid { 11.05.09 at 3:24 PM }

Ruth said “lettuce quilt” or Ruth said “let us quilt”

2 polly { 11.16.09 at 10:04 PM }

1. Whither thou goest, I will grow–Ruth 1:16

2. Whatever thou sowest, I will sew-Ruth

3. Lettuce sew Ruth’s veggies.

4.The seven year stitch.

5. Stitch by stitch, row by row, gonna make this lettuce grow…

6. Lettuce 4×4

3 polly { 11.17.09 at 4:37 PM }

Variation on #5—-To the tune of ‘The Garden Song’ sung by John Denver, written by Dave Mallett

Piece by piece, cut and sew,
Gotta make this lettuce grow…
Seven years as a UFO,
Now it’s done in Minne-sew—ta!

4 Connie Dretske { 11.20.09 at 8:58 AM }

How about Let Us Color!

Con

5 Janet Jonas { 01.08.10 at 5:05 PM }

OK, Polly gets my vote HANDS DOWN… even if she, you, and I are the only ones who “get” it.

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