Mountains Of Scraps

Hello Dear Friends and Readers, I have something beautiful to share with you today.   I’m feeling ever so grateful and delighted  because……… guess what?  Someone made a quilt for me!! Isn’t that marvelous!! That beautiful someone is my Step Mother who is a very accomplished needle woman  she has indeed won quite a number of prizes for her work which covers many genres besides patchwork, including crochet, cross stitch and embroidery.  Marion also supports the Orange Tree Quilters, a charitable organisation who make quilts for children, neonates and stillborn babies.  Her job is to hand stitch all of their quilt bindings.  That is hundreds of metres / yards of binding.

Orange Tree Quilters

I will not be sharing a pattern as it is not my design, however I would love to share the inspiration and beauty of this quilt with you all.

The quilt is made using the pattern of Delectable. Mountains. It is a wonderful old  pattern and all those hundreds of half square triangles are just beautiful!

Here is an article which sheds a bit more light on the pattern and its history in case you are interested.

delectable-mountains

The Delectable Mountains block itself is extremely adaptable and can be set in many unique ways for a different look.  It’s beautiful as a single colour or as a scrappy quilt.  I think Marion’s colour choices are perfect for me.

 Many of her fabrics look reminiscent of civil war reproductions and colours.   The following photo is a close up of one of the blocks.  It’s super scrappy with so much variation in each block.  The red/ burgundy of the borders and the background of the toile are the elements which hold the quilt together.

You will also notice that she designed and hand stitched a wonderful Dogs Tooth Border all around the perimeter of the quilt, which really adds to its overall finish and complements the red/burgandy toile border.

Here is a closer look at the Dogs Tooth Border.

Isn’t she a beauty!

This quilt was professionally quilted by Elaine Kennedy.

Thank you Marion!

I hope you enjoy viewing this wonderful quilt as much as I am!

Happy stitching.

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and what I have been working on lately in between projects is the block.  I’m trying to use up a bucket of triangle off cuts.

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Susie