FALLOW GROUND

Awhile back I posted about reinventing a quilt that I made in 1986 called "Orchestral Maneuvers at Dawn" (named after a favorite band of my son's at the time).

It was a simple alternating two-block design.

I knew that by using newer fabrics and a different layout of the two blocks, an entirely different quilt would emerge.

Here are the two blocks in the new fabrics.

And here is the finished quilt which I have named "Fallow Ground".

Hosea 10:12 and Jeremiah 4:3 in the bible talks about fallow ground.

"THE STATS"

'Fallow Ground', 2019, 23"x23", Paper Pieced, Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted

Every thing old can be new again!

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REINVENTING A QUILT FROM MY PAST

I've always enjoyed combining two different blocks in a quilt to produce secondary patterns.  

Here's a quilt I made in 1986 using two different blocks:

 My son named it "Orchestral Maneuvers at Dawn" --- does anyone else remember the 1980s band named OMD? 

I decided I wanted to reinvent the quilt using the same two blocks, but in a different setting and using entirely different fabrics.

These are the same two blocks in current fabrics that I'm working with:

And, a glimpse of the different setting:

I'm moving right along and almost have the top pieced.

Stay tuned for the completion of the quilt!

More of the two-block quilts I have made over the years are included in my books:

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