Cspoonquilt

We flew home on Weds (or was it Tues?!).  The sky was clear as a bell and the arial views were stunning! There's Mt. Rainier, all of it's 14,000+ feet of glory!! Puget Sound is especially interesting from the air with all of it's water ways and islands. Look!  There's even an island with some 9 patches! Moving South we got a great view of Mt. Saint Helens.  Remember that one?  I'll give you a hint: CABOOM!!!!!!!!!! It's hard to believe but it's been more than 40 years since it erupted in Mar. of 1980! That's Mt. Jefferson off in the distance and directly below is some of the rich agricultural land of Central Oregon (now there's a crazy patchwork! In the center of this next Picture you can see the "Three Sisters" and Mt. Bachelor just beyond them on the right. At the base of the East side of the Three Sisters is the charming little town of "Sister's" Oregon. It is Home to the famous Sister's Out Door Quilt Show! A little fa...

I sent off 3 more CZU quilts for the next give away the other day.  This is the latest finish.  It was a combination of two large FQ bundles that I thought looked nice together.  Purple-Green and Blue is always a pretty safe combos and one of my Favs!. These blocks are 18" square   You can cover a lot of territory when you work with 18" blocks.  This quilt is 87" square! I used my new favorite stipple for the quilting.  I've been calling it my the 'George Jetson' pattern.  It has kind of a Mid Century Modern vibe.  What I like about it is three fold:  it's a good scale for these blocks (big),   it travels through the various patches sometimes appearing and then disappearing  which makes it more interesting and probably most important it's something my brain can handle without to much effort or time!   Once the quilt was loaded on the frame I think it only took about 3 hours to quilt! Here's the back... It's hard ...

Dye Rot? You might have heard the term but what does it really mean? Basically through some part of the Dye process some part of the cloth was exposed to some caustic chemical which rendered it weaker and therefore more likely to disintegrate sooner than other surrounding parts of the cloth. It's pretty easy to identify because the spots of deterioration are usually in some regular pattern based on the pattern of the print.  As in this picture, This is Maybe the oldest quilt top in my collection of Vintage quilts and tops.  The indigo print and style of applique may date back as far as the 1840's! You can see from the regular way that the spots appear that this was not just random rot!  Something touched those spots to make the fabric rot in that pattern. The two flowers are more less the same age but the one on the left has a small print.  Where as the one on the right is a solid.  One has rot the other is in pretty good shape. So what prompte...