I think I've just got time to submit a second entry to the 2015 Spring Bloggers' Quilt Festival. If you seriously don't know anything about it, just click here
My Second entry is this bright and fun Rainbow Quilt.
I was involved in a rainbow charm swap a few years ago and waited until I knew the right project for them!
Amy has called this category ROYGBIV for the seven classic colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), but as quilters we know that a colour wheel has SIX colours and its only a short leap to understand that a rainbow has the same. I was told that in the 15th century (or so) the church felt that as 6 was associated with the devil (the number of the anti-Christ being 666) it was a bit dodgy having six colours in the rainbow so they kind of added indigo!
Anyhow, I blogged about making it here, and my "rainbow" quit goes under the far less romantic name of "LJ 7R" This is due to the conversation I have with myself as I'm joining the blocks together: "L, J, L, J, L, J" followed by "7, R, 7, R, 7, R".
Look at this photo and you'll maybe see why:
Some people call it floating squares, I call it LJ 7R, but I hope you'll all call it bright and beautiful!!!
I started this blog for me - it expanded to show BFF Jackie what I was doing - and a few others have invited themselves too - everybody welcome! Mostly about patchwork, with random comments about embroidery, family and life in general, come on in, put your feet up, and I'll put the [virtual] kettle on.
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