Showing posts with label Gallery Post - Workbasket Quaker Animal Series. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Gallery Post - Workbasket Quaker Animal Series - Update


Every so often I get grandiose ideas and make extraordinarily ambitious plans.  My hopes of making a queen-sized quilt from Workbasket's Quaker series is just one example of this tendency.

I intend the center medallion of the quilt to be the Quaker House with the four Quaker "trees" representing the seasons in the four corners of the center piece.  Then surrounding the center piece is a large rectangle made up of all the domestic/farm animals and an outer and even larger rectangle made up of woodland animals.  All of these stitched pieces will be border by log cabin style quilting frames in calico and solid cottons in deep to medium greens.  That's the vision anyway.

So far, I have stitched

The House

The Summer Tree

The Autumn Tree

The Winter Tree

The Spring Tree

The Cat

The Cow

The Pig
The Rooster

The Sheep
The Frog

The Rabbit

The Swan

The Tortoise

The Owl
The Bat


This update [7/3/15] marks the beginning of a renewed effort to stitch enough animals to actually start work on assembling the quilt.