A few months ago, I finished my Vintage Melons quilt top. Almost three months ago, to be exact, and I’ve been meaning to post this update ever since, but could never seem to make myself sit down long enough!
I had a tough time deciding on a layout, and finally decided on a layout that looked like large flowers on big stems full of leaves. And it turned out so gigantic that I can’t even get good photos to show you what that actually looks like!
There were so many repeats of a few of the vintage melon prints that I decided to group them and turn them into large flowers. Then I appliquéd centers on them.
Then I made various groupings of leaves to look like the flowers were on stems, and added sashing in between all the groupings.
I came dangerously close to making this a very ugly quilt! It did turn out a bit better than I first thought it did.
It measures around 107 inches wide by 105 inches long. I will get it quilted up one of these days and re-measure it to make sure. Hopefully, at that time, I will also get some better photos of it to show you.
I DO love how happy and bright it is.
Meanwhile, I’m happy to have those vintage melon pieces made into a quilt top. One step closer to salvaging some unused pieces that another quilter had obviously intended to do something with.
Maybe they gave up on it because they thought it was gonna be too ugly?
I always say, “There’s no such thing as an ugly quilt.” And this will still be a snuggly item once I’m finished, even if it isn’t a show stopper! It at least deserves that.
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