Antique
Toys: 2000 (Stitched: 1998)
Block #2
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| Perhaps not quite so much embroidery on this one..... |
Antique Toys made another appearance in my
life as part of a group raffle (Bondi Evening Group) for our Embroiders
Guild. I so enjoyed making the duck
block in 1988, I did it again some 10 years later! We each made up a pattern on a 12” block, in
colours that appealed to us, although with a leaning towards a Christmas theme. We added lots of embroidery (in keeping with
our group raison d’etre), then put it all together.
Alison coordinated this effort, starting with a proposal/design ideas discussion in 1998, supervising construction in 1999 (that means quite a bit when it comes to coordinating group quilts) and then off to the Guild in 2000. Some very lucky person has now this lovely quilt.
These blocks were chosen from patterns which can be found in Cindy Taylor Clark’s book “Antique Toys”, 1983. I rather enjoyed the "repeat" exercise (remarkably) so somewhere in my mind I stored away the idea that ONE DAY I was going to make all of the blocks in this set for me…..as you do!
Alison coordinated this effort, starting with a proposal/design ideas discussion in 1998, supervising construction in 1999 (that means quite a bit when it comes to coordinating group quilts) and then off to the Guild in 2000. Some very lucky person has now this lovely quilt.
These blocks were chosen from patterns which can be found in Cindy Taylor Clark’s book “Antique Toys”, 1983. I rather enjoyed the "repeat" exercise (remarkably) so somewhere in my mind I stored away the idea that ONE DAY I was going to make all of the blocks in this set for me…..as you do!
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| Bondi Evening Group Donation Quilt 2000 |
