Welcome to Treadlestitches!
It's a beautiful morning, and I'm thinking about one of my favorite colors, indigo blue.
One of the first things that drew me to quilting was my love of antique quilts, like the top above. And of all the amazing colors in these old quilts, indigo blue was/is my favorite.
Just look at the way this unknown quilter used many different blue and white prints as setting squares for these scrap blocks. She may have done that because she didn't have enough of any one print. I'm glad she didn't--it gives us so much more to look at.
Dark blue is this month's color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, so I've been pulling out my reproduction indigo scraps to make my spiky stars.
Here they are, ready to be quilted by the block. I'm hoping to finish the spiky star quilt before the end of the year.
Having recently organized my "big scraps" (pieces ranging in size from a fat quarter to nearly a yard), I have a whole box of repro blues. Hmm, wonder what I could do with these? Isn't there a blue and white quilt in the back of my mind somewhere?
Oh, yes, this one. I saw it hanging in the Roscoe Antique Mall in Beloit last December, and took this photo.
Of course I had to make a test block. The pattern is a variation of Double T or Capital T (Brackman #1662b).
Because the corners are turned so the dark fabric is to the outside of
the block, it doesn't look like a T at all.
So I'm calling it Roscoe Star.
And off we go, on another squirrel chase.
Just as soon as I get over this cold.
I'm wishing good health for you this week, and happy stitching.
Cheers for reading,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
Linking up with:
Angela at
So scrappy
Myra at
Busy Hands Quilts
Sarah at
Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Cynthia at
Oh Scrap
