One of the quilt tops I got done during my hiatus was my Tomorrow’s Heirlooms Top.
I have had the blocks completed for a while, I just never knew how I wanted to set them. I never bought the finishing kit, and frankly I didn’t like it. But in retrospect, I should have bought it just so I could have gotten the hydrangea fabric for an outer border. I had bought matching white-on-white fabric just on a whim – I am glad I did.
These blocks were started in 2005. I had been on a year-long hiatus when I was in Washington State. I wanted something easy to start back on after so long. It was a Marti Michell Block-of-the-Month. The blocks are not “easy” per se from aspect that there are a lot of pieces, but with the templates to be used, it was easy because of the cutting was more accurate and the kits were already there.
I finished the blocks in 2007 shortly after we moved to Hawaii. They then set waiting for me to have the “perfect” setting for them. I never really could find it. Nothing hit me with it.
Fast forward to about a week ago. I had bought new containers for my projects to go in my shelves, and while I was transferring the projects to the new containers, I came across these blocks again. I decided I would set them simply and make a wall-hanging of them. I have a purple mottled backing fabric that I bought by accident online that would be perfect for this. I will use the same fabric to bind the quilt.