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This week Project Quilting 14.4 theme is Novel Project So of course I remembered I had a scrap of Pride and Prejudice fabric. I decided size wise it had to be a small project so why not a pillow. I adore black and white fabrics anyway and had some fun script fabrics to use.  I was so happy to make a silhouette and have it capture some of the best parts of the fabric. The silhouette is Jane Austen at a younger age and it was a free clip art.  The pillow is 16" size applique and piecing minimal quilting and applique Linking this up with Kim @ Persimmon Dreams  Project quilting 14.4 My Quilt Infatuation Alycia Quilts finish or not friday Confessions of a Fabric addict Put your foot down From bolt to beauty Wendy's Quilts and more parade

"Conversation of a Marriage" Weight of Love Pattern by Libs Elliot 53" x 59" My entry into the  Blogger's Quilt Festival  Small Quilt category. I took a class with Libs Elliott thru my local modern quilt guild.  I collected many of the fabrics for a while as I love text.  These have some special meanings to me and I tried to include elements that represent my husband and myself over the years.  Some of the fabrics includes are the Pastel Thift text letter fabric that I used to put the "lbs." to represent another kind of unit of measure in the 'weight of love'.   Also I ordered this great Pride and Prejudice fabric from a designer at Spoonflower. (sorry I could not find your name to link to) The backing has tons of text and graphic prints.  Please stop over the the  Blogger's Quilt Festival 2016 fall edition  and vote for your favorites when it opens.  Also linking up with Lorna @  S...

You know how sometimes you get an idea in your head and you can't shake it? You might analyze the situation and say it is just not rational but then you really want to do it anyway?  This is "So Blue" a portrait of my mother when she was 16. The back building is the Joslyn art museum which I thought was fitting for my work of art! So you start and you see this is going to be a big messy project. You can almost see pieces of your hair turning gray but you keep going. Your iron is not trustworthy, you math skills are questionable but you stick to it and hope no one else in the house needs any clear space for the foreseeable future...so you keep at it.  Almost all the blocks are made up of 100 1.5" squares. The bottom row has one less row. 1960 cut 1.5" squares..yesserieeee!   Then, things start to happen. (I can tell you up close you have no idea what you are doing. Even stepping back I had to use my camera lens to look at it at such close quarte...