{"id":2418,"date":"2013-05-28T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2013-05-24T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:30:10","slug":"dots-and-spots-and-polka-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"Dots and Spots and Polka Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned in my last update on “Raise the Roof<\/a>” that I was planning to tackle a second quilt this summer. \u00a0I think I’m so determined to get all my UFOs and wanna-sews done while I can because I know the fall is coming and the fact that I’ll be heading back to school to pursue my doctorate means that my spare time will be utterly non-existent.<\/p>\n

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This new quilt is a fun quilt (not that they’re not all fun but this one has a vibe that just says ‘let’s play!’). \u00a0The colours are cheerful and vibrant and definitely outside of my normal palette of maroon and deep browns and and tans. \u00a0I have an urge to put my hair up in a pony tail and skip whenever I look at them.<\/p>\n

It’s all based around a discontinued fabric that I picked up from Connecting Threads, called Peppermint Forest.<\/p>\n

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I picked up 5yds, not quite sure what I wanted to do with it, but thinking it would make a good starting point for a quilt. \u00a0The problem was, I couldn’t find the right pattern. \u00a0Nothing seemed to work. \u00a0They all left me kind of blah.<\/p>\n

Then while I was visiting Carrie Nelson’s site (the same Carrie Nelson who designed Raising the Roof), I clicked on her freebie page<\/a> (or as she calls it the ‘Stuffus Gratis’ page :)) and found exactly what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

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Shiny Brite<\/a> lives up to its name. \u00a0And it will work perfectly for the fabrics I’ve got chosen, which are all a bright mix of turquoise, lime, hot pink and brown dots, spots and polka-dot fabrics. \u00a0And the\u00a0kaleidoscope pattern looks like peppermints. \u00a0When it’s right, it’s right.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to make a twin size version, so it will involve a lot more blocks (120 or so). \u00a0I’ve been collecting fabrics as I go the past several months. \u00a0 Everything \u00a0has been washed and pressed and is ready to be cut. It’s funny how fabric colours \u00a0and print styles are so trend-driven. \u00a0I could find grey and mustard and cheddar and pale, pale pinks galore but teal blue and bright pink are\u00a0definitely off the radar this season.<\/p>\n

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I don’t plan on piecing the border – I have enough of the main cream print with the children and the gingerbread to fussy cut the border to feature the little houses.<\/p>\n

I’m also toying with adding some rick-rack along or on top of the border but I won’t worry about making a final decision until I’ve actually got the quilt pieced and I can play with some options. \u00a0The only thing I’m still looking for is the perfect binding fabric. \u00a0I want a medium scale hot pink and white candy cane stripe but despite all my searches, I can’t seem to find it. If you happen to spot any in your travels, let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned in my last update on “Raise the Roof” that I was planning to tackle a second quilt this summer. \u00a0I think I’m so determined to get all my UFOs and wanna-sews done while I can because I know the fall is coming and the fact that I’ll be heading back to school to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,18],"tags":[191,195,193,196,15,197,303],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting-2","category-wip","tag-carrie-nelson","tag-kaleidoscope-quilt","tag-piecing","tag-polka-dots","tag-quilting","tag-shiny-brite","tag-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}