It is a great over-cast day for photographing quilts out-of-doors. My red, white, and blue Hachi quilt has finally been photographed.
This is another fabulous barn in my neck of the woods. This barn door is the perfect backdrop for a red, white, and blue quilt. The owner was very nice to let me photograph their barn.
Hachi quilt number four is red, white, and blue. I am making it as my annual donation quilt for Veterans Day. I like to have it done well in advance, and this year I am hitting the mark.
I was not sure about the red stripe fabric when I chose it from my stash, but it is what makes the quilt look sharp. I have fabric in my stash that will make more amazing Hachi quilts. I have some huge florals, but the ones foremost in my mind are sharks and Dr. Who. That is my mind! Keep checking back on me.
This is Hachi quilt number 3. I had it on the design wall last month. It is made from men shirts (the shirts of men). Three belonged to my husband and two I got at the thrift store, but now they are in an amazingly soft quilt that I designed for use as a picnic quilt. I put a shirt tail on all four edges of the quilt. I sewed the ends into the piecing, and left little cubby spaces between the quilting, so one can tuck one's napkin in, and it won't blow away.
Plus, I used a pocket piece from each of the four shirts. The fifth shirt was a dark woven shirt, I used as the unexpected visitor in the quilt. It is part of the unexpected, curved-piecing I decided to use. I also incorporated a few blocks made from the cotton sheet that I used for the backing and the binding.
In the beginning, there were shirts . . .
