Saturday, March 10, 2012

Something small

The Victorian Hexagon Quilt is finished! I feel pretty proud.. Not only to have finished it but I will be starting to quilt it soon too. Yes, I am staying on track and not let that one go inside the closet.
You can visit here to read more about the quilt.

Before I start quilting  the quilt, I decided to use up those cut-away scraps from the hexagon blocks. As much as I enjoyed making a quilt using foundation piecing method, I wasn't ready to throw away anything just yet.

So, I cut bits and pieces and used what I could and made a little quilt top. 

Yes, I can not emphasis enough on the word "little".

It is an 8" x 8" quilt, I would like to call "Fragments". It represents the memories left in fragments. In this case, the memories of my recent quilt and it's process.


I am making it to donate for the AAQI. For which it represents the fragments of memories left in a brain struck with Alzheimer.

I just found out that the quilt I made last year was sold. A perfect time for me to start another one.

What are your scraps being used for? Mine are going for a good cause.

Visit AAQI to learn more about the project. Help any way you can.

Here is another one I will be hand quilting next week.


Remember, scraps are fast and fun way to make unique quilts.
Can't make a big quilt? Make a small one and donate it to AAQI.
It doesn't take that much time.. Just the will to make it happen.
 

12 comments:

  1. Great fun, Sujata..and so nice of you! I appreciate every fragment donated and every fragment left in my own brain, trust me! And your work is always so lovely..even the leftover bits and pieces are wonderful!

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  2. It's not the size that counts... Sujata, these little quilts are treasures!!

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  3. your quilts remind me of an article on Willem de Kooning I read years ago. He kept painting up to the end of his life, even with ALheimer's, and they debated whether his later paintings reflected a dissolution in his process, or the final, distilled beauty of what he had been trying for all along. Beautiful fragments for a worthy cause!

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  4. I love knowing that making even the smallest quilts can be made to donate and raise money and awareness for such a cruel disease. I don't get much time for quilting but hope I can be donating in the future. Thank you for posting this information.

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  5. I'm here to follow you now :) I donate all of my scraps to a lady with MS that can't get out to shop. But this idea of yours is a great idea!

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  6. Totally love the scraps, it's like a little mosaic!

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  8. I love using scraps to make art! These are beautiful quilts. I especially love the last picture!

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  9. I love your unique quilts. I have a tons of scraps and will be making a scrap quilt soon. I will list it when I do:)

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  10. I love your scrap quilts and will make one of my own before long:)

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