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Day 29: Flamingo Carrom

This was made in the early 2000's, when my kids, my fabric stash, and I were so young! Also, I was obsessed with Marilyn Doheney's wedge rulers. Despite the frenetic color, and, lordy, the gold lame in the center (what was I thinking?)....

...I still sort of love it. Flamingos and zebras and tigers, oh my!

Day 30: Frankenquilt!

The previous project left me a bunch of extra wedges, which I stuffed into my UFO cabinet. About 15 years later, I pulled them out and made the central circle and inner border of this ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 3 years, 5 months ago. under chuppah , city quilts , cityscape quilts , judaica , marilyn doheney , rubber stamp quilt , scrap project , scrap quilt , wedding quilt , wedges

When I started this quilt, the idea was to make a rainbow-colored 6-pointed star. I hoped to create a pattern people might use to make a wedding canopy, among other things. The most relaxing way to do that, I figured, would be to start with log cabin triangles.

So what you see in the central area of this quilt are a whole lot of log cabin pieced triangles - each center piece is light, and the three "logs" around it are darker. You're also seeing blocks I call "water lilies" - from left to right, the oddball orange, pink and purple ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 4 months ago. under chuppah , gifts , improvisation , jewish , judaica , log cabin , modern , modern quilt , modern quilting , quilt pattern , solid fabric , wedding quilt

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