In my ongoing attempt to work through some of my old unfinished projects this year, I have been going through a box of leftover blocks each month, pulling out anything that matches the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Our color for January was pink, and for February it was blue. I discovered a very old group of pink/peach and blue blocks, probably made in my first year or two as a quilter, which would date them to the mid-1990's. Here's one of my favorite blocks from the group.
The old pink and blue blocks I'd pulled out appeared to be my early attempt at a sampler quilt. I'd guess that I was working my way through a series of block patterns from a quilting book I took out of the library, my favorite source for quilting information back then. My first attempt to use them now was to put them together into a baby quilt, adding a greyish-blue striped fabric for sashing and border.
That combination just wasn't working for me, so I decided to use each block separately to make placemats. I pulled an assortment of other fabrics to frame and border the blocks, and I even had a couple of those same old fabrics from the 90's still in my stash. The finished size of each placemat is around 12-13" high x 18" wide.
I was looking through some old quilt photos (print photos, not digital) and found a couple pictures of a wallhanging that includes many of the same fabrics. The date on that photo indicated that it was made in 1995-'96. I shared this same photo in a 2015 Throwback Thursday post. I would think that the sampler blocks were made around the same time.
Linking up with:
Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation
Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts
Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty
Rainbow Scrap Challenge at So Scrappy
Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework
Happy quilting!
Julie in GA
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