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“I have given skill to all the skillful, so that they may make all that I have commanded you. “ Exodus 31:6


“O Thou who art the all pervading glory of the world, we bless Thee for the power of beauty to gladden our hearts.
We praise Thee that even the least of us may feel a thrill of the creative joy when we give form and substance to our thoughts and, beholding our handiwork, find it good and fair. “.
Walter Rauschenbusch


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"Come, and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what He has done for me.
I cried out to Him with my mouth; His praise was on my tongue.
If I had cherished sin in my heart, the LORD woud not have listened and heard my voice in prayer.
Praise be to God, Who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me!" Psalm 66:16-20
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Brought To You By The Letter, 'S'

I finished piecing the top just now, and after snapping a photo of it on the clothesline, I noticed that I had not trimmed the bottom left corner border.

This is one big quilt for a 3-year-old boy !  He hasn't even moved out of his youth bed yet, and this one hangs well over the edges of a twin mattress.  Oh, well, he can grow into the quilt, right?

I usually wait until the quilt is quilted to share a full shot of the quilt, but I liked my border treatment so much that I wanted to share it now.  My plan had been to do the left and top borders in blue, and the right and bottom borders in green, or something like that.
The bottom border is not skewed........it's just the wind blowing the quilt-top.

But looking at the little stack of cut-off pieces of blocks, I decided to alternate the two fabrics, adding a skinny cut-off strip between the joins.   I like it.   Hubby likes it too, although at first he told me that the borders were "too much fabric".  I told him that he's always wanting me to make my quilts "big enough", and this was all the fabric that I had for blocks or borders so it would just have to do.  Once I added the strips, he thought it looked good.

When the quilt is on the bed, the color orange pretty much takes over, due to my shaping out the letter 's'. right in the center of the quilt in the different orange fabrics.  I hope it's not too intense in the long run.  

For the record, today's temperature is in the 60's and we're expecting our first frost in the state tonight.  Maybe not our area, but parts of East Tennessee will probably have frost tomorrow morning.  I heard, in a weather report, that Oklahoma City had their earliest hard freeze ever, last night.

This has been such a strange year, weather-wise, I don't know WHAT to expect from this Fall and Winter !  But God is still on His throne, so praise be ! 

4 comments:

  1. Love that quilt, green and orange are perfect, and so clever to put the "S" in there.
    I also love the mums in you header photo,they are so pretty.I have orange mums on my porch and they've been blooming for almost 2 months!

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  2. Your blog header photo is gorgeous!

    This is such a fun, happy and scrumptious quilt! How very clever to piece the "S" in that way and I love the border!

    Happy Tuesday!

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  3. I love it! What a gorgeous yet simple and modern look! He is going to LOVE his big letter "S"!

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  4. I love the quilt and the bright colors. You header photos is very pretty, too. We are at 85 this afternoon, but have been enjoying cooler days.

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