I've been working on this quilt top off and on since 2009, when I was still a new quilter. I had struggled with a couple of quilts that had 1/2 square triangles and biases, etc. so I chose this pattern so I would only be working with squares and rectangles. The block pattern (from the July 09 Fons & Porter mag) also reminded me of a light box work of art that a classmate had made when I was a freshman at TCU in the late 60s (Charley Varner). the inspiration was a selection of Beatles fabrics that Cranston offered. I selected primary colored tie-dyed batiks to go along with the Beatles fabrics.
Then I got side tracked with family things, and somewhere along the way I got the crazy idea to have some of the squares in the block represent Beatles song titles. Then began a quest for novelty fabrics to represent song titles, and some of them I made word puzzles (or a "rebus"). There are now about 50 song or album titles represented in the quilt , which the Beatles or a Beatle either composed and/or sang.
The quilt is at the long arm quilter now, and it will be entered in the Quilt Guild of Dallas quilt show in March.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
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Wish I were going to Dallas this spring! I'd love to see this in person. Congratulations on finishing it AND entering it in the show.
ReplyDeleteI love this pattern. Do you have the title so I can look at it on their website? Beautiful work!
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