Still so many Quilting Ideas and Adventures

Lately, I've spent a good deal of my time browsing via tea cup lovely things.....Beverly Wishing Well    click over and visit - won't You!

But the juices began to flow and the hum of the sewing machine is quite relaxing as the winter weather settles into my home!

The first pic below is the NO WASTE paper piece pattern that is almost finished.... Borders...??? maybe not!   Measure.....

Below is a golden oldie.... tucked away... but I do love the tree... great scrap colors.... would love 12" square blocks.... Maybe the Underground Railroad setting..

At the local quilt shop.... I was awestruck by the colors...and I've never done the Chevron Stripe...

 so here's my start!!!  

and.... I'm pulled towards this 2.5" strip setting.....   I took all of my scraps after bundling and scrapping the NO WASTE pattern....   I ironed and replaced them all OH SO NEATLY in plastic bins.... so....

I hope you are inspired to keep on quilting!   

                           Have a Great Day!

BQuiltin.... always

Beverly

I lvoe this woman ! Harriet Tubman !!

I want a different slant on Eleanor Burns UGRR . . . .   so I did a quilt read by Randy Akers  / professor of visual communications / He prefaced his artist’s statement with a quote: “If you’re tired, keep going, if you’re hungry keep going, if you’re scared, keep going, if you want to taste freedom keep going.” Harriet Tubman (1819-1913) slave, guide and feminist.


He wrote, “The Underground Railroad was a diverse, flexible and interlocking system of activists who helped fugitive African American slaves in the South escape to Canaan (the North and Canada) in the early and mid 1800’s. The Railroad, its “stationmasters,” and “conductors” consisted of many dedicated Abolitionists, Quakers, and former slaves who knew only of their local efforts to aid fugitives and not of the bigger overall operation. It was this country’s first racially integrated civil rights movement and a seedbed for the Feminist movement with women and men taking equal risks and responsibilities. Hundreds of slaves were moved northward each year as an estimated 100,000 slaves escaped to freedom between 1810 and 1850. The Underground Railroad changed not only the lives of the people saved by the successes of its secretive and dangerous efforts, but also the conscience of a nation.

Kunta Kenta (ROOTS series) was asked.... 'What it like to be free - African?"

Quotable quotes.....

I'm a quilter & my house is in pieces. When I learned how to quilt...I forgot how to cook.

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I machine pieced and quilted this early 2005!

An Underground Railroad quilt project by Eleanor Burns.