Hushabye Rejects: The Sad Truth

  • Posted in: Hushabye
  • on August 30, 2010

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I would like to take a small Parisville break to introduce y’all to my Hushabye rejected swatches. It’s a hard thing to throw out certain pieces when I am busy deciding what makes the cut and what doesn’t. There are soooo many reasons why one choice is made over another. In the end I have a nice little pile of fallen soldiers that were maybe just a tad too green or didn’t have the punch I was looking for or, more often than not, they just didn’t play well with the others. What ever the reason, I have them and I love them. Once their fate has been decided I have a couple of options. They can sit in a drawer which would be boring and useless or I could take these little one of a kind gems and make something out of them.

I channeled a fictitious Grandma to come up with this little number. My real grandma wore Chanel and fancied her middle finger above all others. She was not a quilter but an expert shopper and maker of tiny tuna sandwiches. We miss her.

Anywhoo, there are some real treasures in there.  I love the idea of having a quilt that is absolutely one of a kind. It makes me feel happy and special.

35 Responses to “Hushabye Rejects: The Sad Truth”

  1. If that quilt doesn’t make you feel happy and special, I don’t know what will. :) It’s a gorgeous One-of-a-Kind. You’re so good at channeling the fictitious!

  2. Thats great! I love it!

  3. I think that is one of the reasons why I love the sewing/quilting process, that (even if my fabrics truly are not one of a kind) I know that my creation is truly unique. No other quilt, even with the same bundle of fabrics and pattern will be the same as mine. It is a beautiful project!

  4. Beautiful quilt!
    I love the idea of your fictional grandma, and what you said about your real grandma. :)

  5. Wow! What an amazing quilt!!! Not only the pattern itself is amazing, but that it is the ONLY one out there!

    It really is stunning!

  6. Love! I am especially smitten with the color progressions.

  7. Oh my goodness, that is gorgeous!!!!

  8. What a beautiful quilt! I love the place of all the colors. And the quilting is perfect with the blocks. That must be tough to have “rejects” from your art and fabric designs. This is a great way to preserve them.

  9. That quilt is out of this world! Jaw dropping, wish there was a more detailed shot, closer.

  10. Love the quilt!

    Now I have to wipe the diet dew off of my monitor…

    “My real grandma wore Chanel and fancied her middle finger above all others.”

    Too funny!

  11. This is fabulous! I love the color progression–it is just stunning. =)

  12. I think it is beautiful. A great, creative way to make the rejects accepted! ;)

  13. Love that peachy pink…oh and my grandma loved Chanel too! She would have fainted if she even saw a middle finger raised…lol!

  14. Wow! That is unbelievably fabulous. Love, love it.

  15. Sooo cool, I love the colors paired with the white, a very special quilt indeed. Just goes to show that something good can come out of being a reject, if you ever decide you don’t want it my hand is up!

  16. I spied this quilt set up in Angela’s studio and even the little glimpse and I knew I loved it. totally gushing over here –> Amazing color play! I say all of these fabrics play nice. I am in love with those golds, and the aqua! and those colors in between there. The scalloped edges are perfect. Is this machine pieced?? I have to say, I want more photos. Have you ever considered making a cheater print? One more question, what did you back it with?

  17. I love this and am glad they all found a happy home!

  18. Too cool. Amazing what castoffs you have to not pick. Today is all about a Tula giveaway for a cause at The Gracie Jane Project.

    http://thegraciejaneproject.blogspot.com/

  19. OMG I loved the comment about your Grandma.. good for her..

    and I love your quilt.

  21. This quilt is stunning. There is nothing “reject or sad” about it! You really made them into something special. I know tons of grandmas out there that would love this quilt. Mine would, if she were alive to see it. She was a quilter, I grew up watching the church ladies needles poking through the quilt frame as I sat underneath thinking how funny it was and listening to them talk. Beautifully done, and I love your story, it brought back memories!

  22. I’ve never quilted a day in my life, but I came across your blog and simply HAD to share with you how much, from the bottom of my heart, I love this quilt. I want it. I now must learn to quit to reproduce it! Because it needs to live in my house, in a nursery not yet made, for little ones who are, right now, still a shadow of a thought. Love at first sight, seriously. Every color is perfect!

  23. What an excellent plan!!! my grandmas did not quilt or sew or cook or make things…. so I understand! (can we say green pepper cream cheese on melba toast?)

  24. Looks gorgeous, wish we could see it up close so we could see the detail of the fabrics. I am sure its simply divine. Ps My shoes arrived, and they are just superb. Unfortunately they are a little big, so I had to give them to my sister and order myself another pair. My sister was very very happy though!!

  25. I <3 your real grandma. She sounds perfect.

  27. Really love how you blended the colours. It’s a fabulous quilt.

  28. i adore this quilt.. and so wish yellow hadn’t ended up on the cutting room floor. i heart hushabye… and you know that… but “baby” stuff is always pink and blue… and that yellow in the top of your quilt… well it’s just yummy!!

  29. My jaw dropped when I saw this picture. That quilt is simply amazing!

  30. Looking for fabric and came across Tula’s pink. Wondering where the name came from. The quilt designs are wonderful to see. Would like to see them up close to see the detail

  31. OMG! I love the Grandma comment! What a classy lady and I am totally serious. I would love her!

  32. I totally love the idea, and the reality, of this quilt! I think I have the grandmother you are imagining. She’s a Mennonite (no, really…), although not the horse-and-buggy kind. The really-cheap-never-throws-anything-out kind. And I have to say that I think it’s genetic, because I am 1/4 cheap. (That’s how genetics work, right?) And you know what, I think that making use of otherwise useless things sometimes produces the most beautiful creations. Like this quilt, which is 100% fabulous!

  33. Wow, that is totally gorgeous. The quilting makes it and the fabric is lovely. I’m not usually a white and muted color palette kind of girl either.

  34. Love this quilt! What’s the pattern?

  35. Lovely quilt – so much so that I just added it to Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/pin/24896167/) for all the world to see! Beautiful work, thank you for sharing it with us!

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