One quote about imitation says, “Imitation is disingenuous flattery.”
That would mean the flattery is insincere; so, I’ve named this little quilt “Ingenuous
Flattery”. Feel free to call it “IF” for short.
The name starts and ends here, as the Linus quilt will be
donated without that kind of fanfare. I did, however, add my own little
signature label alongside the official Linus one this time. Something from
school days, I guess: “Always sign and date your work,” even in this case, if it is
only an initials-only representative "signature".
For the design I chose to closely imitate a design of Kaye England
seen in Quilt Almanac 2011 magazine, page 9. Kaye’s pattern called “Jelly Stars”
had stars of varied fabrics, so the end look is different, but I really liked
how the roses in this donation quilt played together. If Kaye ever sees this post, I hope she agrees.
There was just enough of the border fabric to make the mitered border, but
because of a “measure twice/ cut once” error, I ended up having to piece one
edge of it… my bad. Fortunately, it is not too noticeable. It is of note only
because it is one of the lessons I re-learned in constructing this one. Wouldn’t
it be great if I would learn to exercise
the lessons I’ve already “learned”?
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| Quilting an "echo" around each star worked well. |
If you ever
decide to use a two-color
binding, may I suggest you think and rethink which color you want on which
side before you cut and join your colors? Only after having cut the strips for
the front (smaller strip) and the back (larger strip), did I do my rethink. So,
rather than reconstruct, I just attached the binding to the back and pulled to
the front, finishing out by hand rather than machine stitching the final fold.
This one finished at 42" square, if you were wondering.
This one finished at 42" square, if you were wondering.
