I've been working on this quilt top off and on since 2009, when I was still a new quilter. I had struggled with a couple of quilts that had 1/2 square triangles and biases, etc. so I chose this pattern so I would only be working with squares and rectangles. The block pattern (from the July 09 Fons & Porter mag) also reminded me of a light box work of art that a classmate had made when I was a freshman at TCU in the late 60s (Charley Varner). the inspiration was a selection of Beatles fabrics that Cranston offered. I selected primary colored tie-dyed batiks to go along with the Beatles fabrics.
Then I got side tracked with family things, and somewhere along the way I got the crazy idea to have some of the squares in the block represent Beatles song titles. Then began a quest for novelty fabrics to represent song titles, and some of them I made word puzzles (or a "rebus"). There are now about 50 song or album titles represented in the quilt , which the Beatles or a Beatle either composed and/or sang.
The quilt is at the long arm quilter now, and it will be entered in the Quilt Guild of Dallas quilt show in March.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
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Wish I were going to Dallas this spring! I'd love to see this in person. Congratulations on finishing it AND entering it in the show.
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