Blue, Blue, My World is Blue.....
By Morley Hunt
@Morleyhunt (21744)
Canada
March 5, 2017 7:02pm CST
The words of that song come to mind when I see this finished quilt.
It was a project begun and finished last year. Somehow no photo was taken and it was never shared on Mylot.
Can you tell? Blue is my favourite colour. I always seem to have a lot of blue scraps to use when I make a quilt.
This quilt was entirely machine pieced from scraps of fabric in my collection. When the quilt front (also known as a flimsy) was finished I sandwiched and pinned it (sandwiching is assembling the backing, batting and the quilt front).
This quilt was machine quilted on my domestic sewing machine, not the treadle....but that is something in my plans.
This quilt will be one of the items for sale when I get my Etsy Store up and running.
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@jillybean1222 (6407)
•
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt oh ha ha ha ha. that was supposed to be Peace and SOLACE. autocorrect must have changed it. ha ha.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
@jillybean1222 it's done things like that to me. I've looked and the it's taken me a lot of time to figure out what I originally typed.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
??? I'm a bit confused...I understand the peace...blue is a restful colour,
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
Space is the largest problem. I went to my daughters house. She has a basement family room that isn't being used....the large floor space is perfect for laying out the backing (a couple of straight pins helps keep it snug agains the carpet....then the batting is smoothed over the backing.....my daughter helped me drop the front on top of it all. Then I sit at my leisure and pin it all together with safety pins. I have also been offered the atrium at the local library on a Sunday afternoon if needed. I know some people use a church hall.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
29 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt I have to move furniture back on my living room floor and it works all right. My biggest problem is quilting on my machine. It's so hard to keep the quilt straight.
@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
I made this pink quilt for my granddaughter. My daughter loves butterflies. This quilt was started on November 14, the day after my daughter learned that Sandra was waiting for her. The quilt was finished by December 1st. The day of her baby shower.
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@shaggin (72540)
• United States
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt This is amazing. I would use that and then hang it on the wall when the baby outgrew it. What a wonderful gift!
@LadyDuck (472253)
• Switzerland
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt I have not a favourite one, but several, pink, yellow, ivory, some shades of green, not all.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
@LadyDuck I like a lot of colours. Those colours would make for a pleasing combination in a quilt.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
What is your favourite colour? I make many colourful quilts, but when I'm using scraps....I seem to have more blue than anything else,
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
7 Mar 17
I hope so. I think that will be the first thing I do when I get home from my mini vacation.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
I love the colour blue. It actually was started because my 2.5 inch squares didn't fit in their box any longer. This was the quickest way to remove some excess squares.
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@bluerubymoon53 (3286)
• United States
11 Mar 17
I like the basic 9-patch blocks. Can use up a lot of scraps that way. Love the stars in the blocks, too. Naaahhhh. I couldn't tell at all that you like blue. 
I'm looking forward to seeing your shop on Etsy. 
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
11 Mar 17
I'm looking forward to getting it up and running....I just didn't want to set it up.....go on holidays for a week and hopefully be inundated with sales that I couldn't complete because I wasn't home. Two weeks later won't (hopefully) make that much difference.
@allknowing (138428)
• India
6 Mar 17
So what? I like gardening and you like making quilts Super job I say
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@allknowing (138428)
• India
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt After being here I have learnt so much about your gardening programmes
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
No gardening this time of year in Canada....the frozen ground discourages anything from growing until later this month....then my tulips and daffodils will show their heads.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt That is a great job.I like blue and also the squares.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt For you it is simple.But as I do not know the basics,it feels like complicated.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
The pieced squares are so simple...they are a basic 9 patch
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
6 Mar 17
I might be the one to buy it, depending on how much money I have to spend at that moment. This is such a beautiful little quilt!
Lord knows I don't need anymore blankets but that probably won't stop me! Still, the money might!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt It is quite the prcoess. My mother made several quilts. I have one of them now. It needs some TLC. My aunt quilts as well, though not as often as she used to.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
Thanks. If I could only quilt them as fast as I can make the tops....id make so many more than I do now.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
29 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt Do you make large or small quilts. it's hard to tell from the picture.
@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
6 Mar 17
Very pretty. Yes for someone who loves blue, this should be the perfect quilt.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
7 Mar 17
Thank you. I try to make quilts in a variety of colours, but it is often evident that blue is my favourite colour.
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@Juliaacv (51661)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
@Morleyhunt My mother and aunt used to like making those quilts. My aunt made us one for a wedding gift, we married in early October and it was all done in rust colours, it was so beautiful.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
Thank you. When making a scrap quilt, sometimes it is finding the balance. You often need one fabric(colour) to anchor everything else.
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@MarshaMusselman (38864)
• Midland, Michigan
6 Mar 17
Nice. Blue isn't my favorite color, but the sky is blue and I can look at that for hours especially when it's decorated with different types of cloud structures. I doubt my sewing machine could handle all of that, but maybe it will be a try later when I retire. I could always do baby quilts so I can get some quilting fever going and still get projects done quickly, maybe.
I've made one quilt in my lifetime, I have a picture of one I found while cleaning windows last year. It may be called cathedral windows? The other was a log-cabin quilt pattern. That one never was completed. About half a full-sized bed's width and length was completed but nothing more. I was moving around a lot back then and it wasn't in the forecast.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
7 Mar 17
Some of my quilts have taken weeks to complete...others have taken years.
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@marsha32 (6631)
• United States
19 Apr 17
Yellow is my favorite color.....yet to make a quilt with yellow though! I have one I want to make with yellow and blue, but yeah, really need to finish other things that I have started.
@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
6 Mar 17
Thank you. I was quite happy with the final result.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
29 Mar 17
Your blue quilt is pretty. I enjoy making quilts and I would like to start another one when I get other projects out of the way. I have a lot of pink scraps and I want to use them up. I'd like another color to go with them.I think maybe a yellow. What do you think?
