Saturday, 4 December 2004
WV Quilts -- Posted by Lyn
My husband and I spent a weekend at resort in West Virginia a few weeks ago. They display and sell quilts in their main building and I snapped a couple of pictures of what they had out. Here's one.
I finally got back to working on the Christmas stack-and-slash quilt. It's coming out all wacky, but I kind of like it. I haven't been as careful or thoughtful about how I'm putting it together, so there are a few places where different combinations might have been better. But, so far, I think it's cool. We'll see how the rest of it goes.
6 comment(s).
So, where are the pictures of the progress?:) I think that some "accidents" in piecing are nice actually. It adds interest. When everything all works all the time, it can get kind of boring. Not that perfection is terrible, but it's just completely unattainable for me, so it makes me happy that accidents can be interesting.
Quilty comment by Joni on 5 December 2004
maybe those "west virginia" quilts were imported from china? The ones I see in stores like Bed Bath and Beyond usually are.
Quilty comment by Anita Rowland on 8 December 2004
I also suspsect that they were not handmade -- if you could buy the material wholesale and get a sweatshop to machine sew them, they'd probably be pretty cheap.
Quilty comment by Katxena on 9 December 2004
How is the stack & whack Christmas quilt coming along? I'm dying to see it. :) Hope you're having a great Advent season!
Quilty comment by Carrie on 13 December 2004
I will try to get some pictures posted this week of the stack-and-slash blocks. I'm just about ready to piece the top together...
Quilty comment by Lyn on 14 December 2004
Add a comment...Following up... I suppose that's true about the quilts I saw not being handmade and/or being made in a sweatshop. I don't recall whether there were any authenticity claims made about them - and they were all somewhat bland (at least to my eye..) That probably explains the prices.
Quilty comment by Lyn on 27 December 2004
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