More Blue Quilts

A few more blue quilts.  I love the ageless, clean simplicity of blue and white quilts.  When I started collecting antiques tops and quilts and blocks, I desperately wanted an indigo and white quilt. Just one! My oldest child was still in a stroller and I fell for an Ohio Star.  Did not fall in love with the cost.  Should have made the purchase then, but the practical mom side of me said no.  Regretted it ever since!  Nearly 30 years of regret, considering the price of indigo and white quilts today.  So I reproduce them.

Here is one I absolutely love, hand quilted in utility quilting style.  Stencil and chacoliner, not a compass and pencil, but similar in many ways, to the spirograph designs.  By the way...loved the comments that have come in...funny how many of us had Spirographs!

My Double Nine Patch quilt from History Repeated





Close up of utility quilting. Favorite part...the pumpkin seed design in the corners.
Note the two indigo prints...same value, adds interest.

 

On the bed with an indigo woven coverlet.
Look closely and you can see where I extended the stencil
to create a circle design repeating all over the quilt.

A final blue quilt for today...

Have you noticed how difficult selecting blue fabric can be?  Look at the blues at the quilt shop next time you are in, or go look right now at the blue zone in your fabric collection.  Not all blues are created equal, again that 'spice of life' thing.  Just look and you will see gray blue, green blue, true blue, blues that have a purplish quality, etc and in all shades and tints, and all mixed up!  hmmm...more discussion next time. See you then.