Here’s the simplest option, above.
Here’s another simple option.
Now it’s getting complicated. Here are 4 different options. All are ombre fabrics. I only have a yard of each of these fabrics, so there’s probably only enough fabric for 2 triangles from each fabric. This isn’t a good photo of the colors, but at the moment, I’m leaning towards blue.
I decided that this baby quilt needed another color. I was thinking purple or hot pink. Some online quilters in the Lib-quilters suggested gold, to go with the giraffes on the back. I went with a cranberry.
And here’s the back:
But to appreciate this fabric, which my daughter brought back from Taiwan for me, you need a close up:
You might need to click on it to make it larger to really see the giraffes.
I’ve been busy making fabric face masks for the past month. But I’m back to quilting, at least until I finish this baby quilt. This is the top. It’s finished.
Here is the back, but it wasn’t big enough, so I had to add a strip to the top and the bottom.
When I first pulled out fabric for this quilt, i found a fabric that was perfect as far as color, but I decided not to use it, because, even thogh it was supposed to be a flower, it looks too much like a Coronavirus.
I’m working on another quilt that uses this fabric!
I made a new hamsa block for the center. I combined what I liked the best from the 2 other versions. Here it is all sewn together. Now I need to decide what color the 4 triangles will be.
Here are more than 4 options, for the triangles to put it on point.
I’m trying to decide which version of this quilt I like better. If anyone reading this has an opinion, I’d love to hear it! This will be a double bed sized quilt, so it will get much larger. If I went with the top version, I would put it on point, so it would also have a diamond in a square format.
This is the beginning of a quilt that I started working on, a week ago. It will be a medallion quilt, inspired by all the lovely round robin medallion quilts that friends are making in EBHQ and SFQG. I played with the points on the stars. They range from 4 points/triangles up to 11 points!
I originally had a different center, but decided it was too dark, after viewing it on my wall at night. there wasn’t enough contrast at night. In the picture below, there is enough contrast because I photographed it in the day time.
Then I redid one of the points/triangles of one of the stars. I decided that the top triangle was too small. The original is below.
I just put the labels on these three hamsas for the Marketplace section of Voices In Cloth.
This one is called Orange and Blue Hamsa.
Bird Hamsa- note that it is asymmetrical and is both a hand and a bird.
Kaffe Kef Hamsa, the title of this one, is a bilingual play on words. The name of the fabric designer for the background fabric is Kaffe Fassett. In Hebrew slang, “kef” means fun, and is pronounced almost like Kaffe.
Here’s a small quilt I’m calling House/Hamsa that will be for sale in the Marketplace section of Voices In Cloth. I’m thinking of adding some beads to it.
This is a small mixed media quilt that i made about my mother. There are copies of old photos and recipe cards in her handwriting. The class I made this quilt in was on what would have been her birthday if she were still alive.
There is a section of Voices In Cloth that shows quilts or pieces in progress that were made in an EBHQ workshop. So I spelled out EBHQ in fabric in the workshop with Kevin Kosbab. I like the transparency effect I got with the fabric I chose.
These are the four 12″ x 12″ quilts that I dropped of at Sue Fox’s studio for the jury for the Power of Twelve special exhibit at the 2020 Voices In Cloth quilt show (VIC). How many of them get in depends on how many they receive. I’m also waiting for the news on how my ERA quilt did with the jury for the Century of Women’s Progress special exhibit, also for the Voices In Cloth quilt show. Meanwhile, I’m making a few small hamsa quilts for the Marketplace area of VIC, where the quilts are for sale.
I finished this just in time for the deadline of January 4, 2020. It’s a “story quilt,” so here’s my story:
I remember when the first issue of Ms. Magazine hit the news stands. My mom bought it and read it. Then my sister and I devoured it from cover to cover. After that, Mom subscribed so that all of us could read it every month. I got my own subscription when I went away to college.
I was a teenager in the 1970’s when I first heard about the Equal Rights Amendment, (the ERA.) I was shocked to learn that it hadn’t been ratified yet, and it wasn’t part of the constitution. How could the constitution leave out something so fundamental? “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”. The amendment needed to be ratified by 38 states before becoming part of the constitution. We were one state away from ratifying it, when the time limit ran out.
Twenty five years ago, my husband and I were thinking about names for our not yet born baby. The girl’s name we picked out happened to have the initials: ERA. Although we hadn’t done it deliberately, we very much liked that the initials of our child’s name would spell out ERA. (I didn’t change my name when I married, and my husband’s last name begins with an “A”). Frequently in emails, I would write “ERA,” instead of writing out my child’s full name. On my phone, “ERA” would flash when my first born called home. This year that child, now an adult, decided to legally change their first name to another name that starts with an “E,” that better reflects who they are now. I hesitantly asked, ‘what about your middle name?’ ‘No change’ was the answer! It turns out that ERA loves being ERA!
I wrote a haiku for my quilt about the ERA, but like many things in life, the words couldn’t be contained on just three lines.
100 years of
A woman’s right to vote. BUT
still no ERA?
The background fabric, full of words and newspaper images symbolizes all the talk, arguments, and debates about the ERA that have surfaced since it was first introduced in Congress in 1923.
The scope of work available to women has completely transformed over the last 100 years. In designing this quilt I chose the “churn dash” block, named for part of a butter churn, to represent women’s work of 100 years ago. However the fabric in these blocks represents the work that women do today. Fabric with mathematical equations represents scientists, mathematicians, and technology workers. Radio circuitry fabric represents women in the media; film fabric represents women in the film industry; recipe fabric represents women in the food industry; fabric with a spool of thread represents women in the garment industry; and the sheet music fabric is for the music industry. In the center of largest churn dash is a mariner’s compass to help women find their way in the world.
Here’s a detail:
Someone asked how I got the newspaper onto the fabric. It’s all commercial fabric! I bought fabric that looked like a newspaper, or like typed lines of words, or math equations. There are ways of printing whatever is on your computer screen onto fabric that’s attached to paper and goes right through your printer like regular paper, but I didn’t use that for this quilt.
Here’s a link to more info about the challenge:
https://www.centuryofwomensprogress.com/how-to-enter
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