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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Finished!

You know when you want to make a quilt but other quilts keep getting made before the one you really want to do? The Rose of Sharon quilt was that quilt to me.


Last summer I spotted an advertisement tucked in the back of a quilting magazine for a beautiful Rose of Sharon quilt. I really liked the quilt so I ripped out the page from the magazine and hung it up.


Then much to my delight OESD produced a set of applique embroidery designs which I promptly downloaded. The design set is great but the one thing it didn't include was the pattern to make the quilt!?? So I went poking around the internets until I found Sharon Pederson's website. Sharon had started a Rose of Sharon block challenge in support of Alzheimer's research and had written a book with the winning blocks and quilt patterns. Of course I had to have the book. Trouble was the book wasn't released for a couple of months. So I start to wait. 


In the mean time I'm quilting away as I usually do. I ran out of my trusty mega roll of Aurifil thread. This is a thread emergency. Aurifil is great piecing thread. It isn't linty and never breaks. Trouble is it's hard to find locally. Carola's Quilt Shop has it but that's up in Gibson's two and a half hours drive away.  I give them a call and in less then 24 hours a box of thread was on my door step thanks to the mailman. Crisis averted. 


Anyhow on the Aurifil website I spy a thread set for the Rose of Sharon quilt. I put it on the top of the  buy it for myself Christmas list. (Brian's great but he doesn't get how thread can be thrilling.) Just before Christmas the mailman delivered the box of thread from Carola's. They are really beautiful threads. Brilliant red, orange, blue and green colours.


Off I went to the LQS with my box of threads to pick out fabrics. My buddy Donna works at the shop and she liked my fabric choices so that was good enough for me.


I thought and worked on this quilt for the better part of a year. Even though there were lots of things to help me make the quilt the putting together of it was thought of and put together by me. I used the sashing method in Reversible Quilts by Sharon Pederson, battilizer by Hoopsisters made everything easier, the thread box set choose the fabric for me and the embroidery designs did the appliquéing for me.


I'm really happy with how it turned out.


Now what do I do next....