Mary Mannakee Quilt

I started the Mary Mannakee quilt in January. I kitted several of the blocks intending to whip through this quilt in a year. There was a wonderful batik version of this quilt in our last quilt show. The lady who made it informed me recently that it took her 7 years of on again, off again work. This sounds reasonable to me. I finished the frond and ring block today!

Batik Debate..

I adore this quilt. A while back, OK, two years ago, I ordered a spectrum of hand dyed fabrics so I could replicate it. I made a few of the blocks from various Hawaiian pattern books. They're OK, but I need to have a consistant background that I won't run out of. It's a little problem I have, running out of background. I don't plan ahead.

OK, here's my idea: to make this quilt using batiks. Would it be too weird and disjointed? Would some of them pop and some retreat into the background? Would the Tonga Batiks I'm thinking of ordering look tacky with the more subdued batiks in my collection? Do I have enough things to work on at the moment?

My Surly E-mail Reply to the Previous Post

How convenient of you to have your hop when the other regional shops are having theirs. This way you can cash in on their hard work and advertisements.

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Quilt Show in H'ville..

Saturday, June 30, 2007



I worked the WNCQG show a few hours Thursday and Friday this week. Guild Folk were worried we wouldn't have a good show so soon after the massive Symposium effort but people really came through. There were tons of really great quilts including a Calico Garden and a kick-ass traditional Hawaiian quilt-both by Norene Goard, my new quilting guru. A quilt made with Irma Gail's cool bird applique patterns and hand quilted made a nice showing, too. Here's a link to my webshots page with these quilts:

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/559680890ySPNXq?track_pagetag=/page/photo/goodtimes/friendsfun&track_action=/Owner/DB/Album