What started as my Tie One On apron is in the process of becoming a quilt for my yet to be born niece, Emerson Rose. This month the apron is to have a holiday theme. I thought of doing a Thanksgiving apron, even though I don’t cook much for Thanksgiving now because we always go to Charlie’s parents’ house and his mom does all the cooking – except she doesn’t make cranberry sauce!
Cranberry sauce is my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner. I make it from the recipe on the back of the bag of Ocean Spray cranberries which basicallly involves putting whole cranberries with slices of oranges (peel and all) and some sugar into the food processor. The resulting sauce is really tart and wonderful! So I make the cranberry sauce and I think I eat most of it, too, (how can a whole family not like cranberry sauce?).
Anyway, once I’d gathered all the cranberry fabrics (deep red being my favorite color), I was hunting around for a new patchwork pattern to try. Looking through The Modern Quilt Workshop, I picked Plain Spoken mostly because it has a nice abstract look to it and because it was rated as easy on their difficulty scale.
As I was cutting I realized that I would probably have enough squares to make what they label as a wall hanging but to me seems a good size for a baby quilt. I considered making it for Baby Glassenberg II, but it just seemed to look so Emerson Rose to me (my brother and his wife announced the name a while ago).
It is all pieced now and I’m so pleased with it. I think it will look really nice in a girl’s nursery. Now I need to figure out how I’m going to quilt it. I’m tempted to just tie it because it is easy and I won’t risk messing it up, but the authors of the book recommend against tying. Any suggestions on a relatively safe and easy alternative? Something that doesn’t require dropping the feed dogs?
natalie says
it’s gorgeous! I love all the different shades of red and pink, very pretty
kath says
its just beautiful – diaramama has just made one too – and is getting it quilted profesionally – you should check out her modern quilt along.
http://www.dioramarama.com/kmel/
beki says
It’s absolutely lovely! I wish I knew how to quilt ;( Perhaps one day I’ll get around to learning.
Amanda says
Oh, I love it! So striking! (A whole family against cranberry sauce? Oh my! It’s my favorite too.) As for quilting, you could just do straight-line quilting, either in the same direction as your piecing, or diagonal. Do you have a walking foot? I tried this method on a flannel quilt I made for a friend’s baby, and it was really simple.
Cassi says
Beautiful colors and design; I’m sure it will be loved as a baby quilt. My daughter is named Emerson but goes by Emmi so I’m somewhat partial to the name 😉