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A Quilt Just For Me
Sometimes quilts develop a life of their own.  During my 3-year term as the Alberta Representative for CQA/ACC, I participated in two exchanges with fellow Reps and Board Members.  The first exchange was a signature block exchange and I must admit this one didn't go over so well.  The second was a fabric exchange with a small signature square and this one went much better.  So on my design wall sat these blocks and squares of fabric.  Also on my design wall was a number of 1/2 square triangles I was playing with to create a scrap quilt.  Playing with these, I came up with the pinwheel square-in-a-square block.  I really liked this block so I proceeded to make a few.  Sitting in my chair and studying my design wall I pondered what to do with the exchanges.  Then I discovered that the exchange blocks and the 1/2 square triangle blocks where the same size.  Hummmm, "I wonder what these would be like if I alternated them?"  I really liked this idea.  So I made more exchange blocks from the fabric exchange, matching signature squares to members fabrics to create more two-color signature blocks.  Each block contains two signature squares.  Well, another quilt top was born!

I had already decided that this was going to be "My Quilt" and my quilt only.  But what to do with the back?  In February 2000, Margaret Miller gave a lecture at my Guild Meeting on her up coming book on blocks 'Smashing Sets'.  So taking inspiration from her idea, I dug out my stash of odd blocks and signature squares and again started playing.  Blocks are from 'Block of the Month' programs (1993 & 1994) that I had full intentions of completing one of each for myself.  There's two!  Some are  blocks I had won back in 1993.  And a block exchange with my Pen Pal from Japan in 1994.  The signature squares are from my first Quilt Retreat back in 1993 and last but not least, the Shoofly Block was supposed to be a pillow top made in 1995.  All additional fabrics used to create this quilt where from my stash!

Okay, so now the back was done and when I layed out both pieces I discovered that the back was bigger than the front.  So I added a border made of more 1/2 square triangles and machine quilted it in a simple meander stitch using Sulky Rayons on both the top and bottom.  Now I have a quilt to call my own, full of great memories and friendships.

I now plan on using the remaining odds and ends I have to create more interesting backs for my quilts and maybe someday I will have no more UFO's! Maybe!

This story was published in The Canadian Quilter, Summer 2001 Issue.


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51" x  58"
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"Legend of the Moonflower"
                19"  x  23"
This quilt was designed for the 2000 CQA/ACC TrendTex Challenge.  The Theme of this Challenge was "Tradition For Tomorrow".  The first question I had was "When is tomorrow?" Over a matter of days, I selected the traditional Grandmother's Flower Garden block and as I was building these dimensional flowers a story of how 'Traditions' can be started developed.  The story as written on the back of this quilt follows below.

This quilt was sold by Silent Auction at Quilt Canada 2000 in Toronto, Ontario and was purchased by a very special Angel and was given back to me as a gift.
"Legend Of The Moonflower"  -  The Story
by Jodi-Marie Horne
          "Gather around my children, it is time to share with you the 'Legend of the Moonflower'.
          Once upon a time, before the darkness, there grew a flower so brillant, so beautiful, it was only grown in the gardens of Grandmothers of Kings and Princes.  It's scent filled the air with sweetly spiced mystery.  It's flowers bloomed continuously.
          After the great wars and the beginning of the Darkness, it was thought the Moonflower was lost forever.
          One day, while venturing through the ruins of a great castle, a young maiden discovered, growing up through the rubble, a single stem of the Moonflower, struggling to survive.  With loving care, the maiden nutured and protected the lone plant, and it is said that this single vine grew to hundreds of feet long, twining through the rubble of that old forgotten castle.
          Then suddenly one day, as the maiden tended to her vine, the plant broke into bloom and the air was filled with it's heavenly scent.  The winds carried the scent for miles and miles and the maiden was no longer able to keep her secret as villagers were drawn towards the castle in scores.  They gazed in awe at the magnificant Moonflower.  Over time, the seeds spread throughout the land and were shared by all.
          And this is why each May we celebrate the traditional 'Moonflower Festival' with song, dance and feast.
          'So now my children, it is time for rest as tomorrow the celebrations begin!"

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Techniques Used:  English Paper Piecing, Hand Applique, Mola, Fabric Manipulation, Machine Quilted, Hand Embellished.  Fabric Discharge and Fabric Painting.
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