I have enjoyed many of
Barbara’s sew-a-longs, but I have to say that this (Hospital Sketches) has been my favorite so far.
Please visit the Facebook page to see all the incredibly creativity. I was so anxious to take the photo, I forgot to press it first. I'll try for a better photo if we ever have another sunny day!
It is from the Old Cambridge Pike
line and it works perfectly with my pea green background fabric. And, when I
say “just enough”, I mean it. After I cut my last piece of binding, this is all
I had left! (Please pardon my filthy ironing board cover!)
Back
When I decided to make mine
in the potholder method, I wasn’t sure what I would do for the borders. Thanks
to my friend Cyndi (Busy Thimble) who had just enough of this wonderful Barbara
Brackman print to complete the border panels.
The appliqued blocks are all
hand quilted, but since I wanted to finish this before the end of the year, I
decided to machine quilt the borders.
This is so much easier for me in the
potholder method as the pieces fly right through the machine! Here's a close up of the corner blocks front and back.
Since I like to give my
potholder quilts names with some reference to cooking, I am calling this one
“Pea Soup”. It seems fitting for the background color and I’m quite sure that
pea soup would have been served in hospitals during the Civil War.
Once again, with a potholder
quilt, the back can be as much fun as the front!
Thanks Barbara for another
great sew-a-long!