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Mystery Quilt, Part 2:  Ugly Duckling Finds Soulmate

12/19/2008

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New to this series? Go to Part 1 here.

There I was, confronting a snarling brown-and-green large-scale floral behemoth.
 
Seriously.  If it was an inch, it was 4 1/2 yards.

I remember thinking it was gorgeous when I bought it, eons ago.  I must have been depressed at the time.  

Really, it's good quality stuff, and rather elegant in a Morticia Addams sort of way.  But since the local funeral parlor wasn't planning to re-upholster, I was going to have to quilt with it.  I needed a plan.

Searching through my stash, I found a promising companion fabric:  a floral with reds, blues, purples and greens on a background the color of coffee with a lot of cream.  Sounds colorful, doesn't it?  Nope.  The miniscule spots of color were overwhelmed by a sea of tan with an overlay of tiny black dots.  I had 3 1/2 yards of it. 

The two fabrics seems to have some kinship.  I checked the selvages.  Sure enough, they were both reproductions from the 1840s.  It must have been a bleak decade.

Ugly or not, the pair had the first essential element of a good quilt:  strong value contrast.  I was starting to think that this might work. 

I cut ten 13 1/2-inch squares from each fabric, then sliced the squares twice diagonally to make quarter-square triangles.  A total of 40 triangles from each fabric.

To be continued.....
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