Every disaster movie starts with the government ignoring a scientist.
Quilting
If you follow my posts, you realize I often create baby quilts in series which frequently use leftover blocks and scraps/offcuts from larger ones. Not that I ever tell parents this. People who don't quilt think scraps mean roadkill or something! We know the fabric is still in the $10-15/yard range.
Once I made a series of Lone Stars; I still have some ideas about that. They started with lots of WOF strips that were hanging around.
The Word series began from the idea of traditional four block quilts - those lovely, large (usually appliquéd) blocks that fill the entire bed. I could make them smaller for babies and instead of appliqué, use the alphabet because... four-letter words. Wordle uses five-letter words. That made me wonder how many four-letter words are suitable for babies. LOVE came first; eventually a list developed. Not all have been used but I'm running out of Coin sets - only a few left in the scrap bag.
Combining the last few sets, a yellow and purple group emerged… because my youngest is an LSU grad and surely one of his friends would like a baby quilt in these colors.
The next step was to find a pertinent four-letter word. Unlike his Arkansas brother, all the words were three or five letters: Geaux, Tiger, LSU. Rats. Eventually I realized the “I” could be altered to take less space. A capital I runs into the letter T but the lower case i solved the problem.
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| TiGER baby quilt |
The purple print was purchased at the closing of my LQS but, as usual, it needed to be widened a bit. Two strips of yellow turned up in a search through my stash.
Choosing the plainer one finished the back. Then it was spiral quilted and bound with the last of another purple print.
We’ll see who gets it.
Quilt Specifics
Size: 44” x 44”
Design: Coin or String quilt
Batting: Mountain Mist Cream Rose cotton
Thread: yellow Superior Masterpiece cotton
Quilting: spiral with a walking foot
Approximate yardage: 5.5 yds
Reading
The Black Angels are trained black nurses, mainly from the South, who moved to NY to escape the worst of Jim Crow. There was no cure for TB. Staff members risked becoming patients themselves. With plentiful easier positions available, white nurses quit and/or refused to work at tuberculosis clinics. The authorities advertised down South, promising the women could gain RN status after a few years.
Cures for TB were not found until after WWII.
Enjoy the day,
Ann
