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Winter Walk – Finished

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This Winter Walk quilt – named for the Winter Walk fabric by Denyse Schmidt – has quickly become one of my favorites.

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I love the fabric (obviously) and love the block design, which was inspired by a vintage quilt I saw a few years ago.

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The blocks in this quilt were easy to put together, but the sashing was triiicky.  I love the look, but there may have been some choice words muttered while I was putting it together.

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The angles and the position of the blocks with the sashing was challenging, to say the least.  (Please don’t ask me how I did it because I don’t know, LOL.  I was basically winging it and figuring it out as I went.)

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The back of this quilt is a scrappy collection of Denyse Schmidt fabric and a piece of fabric from a vintage bedsheet.  I thought it went well with the Denyse fabric and has the same vibe.

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When I was cutting the fabric for the back, I wasn’t concerned about it being perfect straight.  Same thing when I was sewing the back; I made the seams slightly wavy or at an angle.  I liked the perfectly imperfect look it gives and I think it complements the scrappy, pieced back.

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This quilt has now been moved to the “finished” pile and I think it might find a spot on my couch for this winter.  It’s a lap quilt size and will be perfect.

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Thanks for reading!

Winter Walk

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Since much of the country will be dealing with frigid temperatures this week and we’re in the middle of winter, it seems appropriate that we talk about my Winter Walk quilt. Don’t you think?

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I took these pictures while I was in the Midwest over Christmas and it took FOUR tries and two different states to get useable pictures.  The wind would not cooperate at all.  That’s why you are going to see pictures in different locations.  But after some frozen fingers and a few choice words, I finally prevailed.

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This quilt was inspired by a vintage quilt I saw.  The blocks are not a true Granny Square but they are Granny Square(ish).

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If anyone knows if these blocks have a specific name let me know.  Again, I saw them in a vintage quilt and recreated them.

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The fabric is Winter Walk by Denyse Schmidt and the gray sashing is from the Palette collection by Marcia Derse.

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If you haven’t used the solids from Palette I highly recommend them.  The colors are so beautiful and have kind of a hand-dyed look. In the description on Windham’s website they describe the colors as having “subtle movement” and I wholeheartedly agree.

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The creamy white color in the blocks is also one of the Palette solids.  It’s not quite a true white; it doesn’t have that stark whiteness that true white has.  I think it’s just right and goes so well with Winter Walk.

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I made this quilt towards the end of last year after looking at a bunch of vintage quilts.  I came away 100 percent inspired by all the old quilts I saw and I think I’m making 2019 the year of vintage quilts.  I saw some that I want to recreate and some that I want to do my own version of.

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Now, don’t hold me to ‘the year of vintage quilts’ thing because I may not stick to it completely.  But right now, all I have on my brain are a bunch of old quilts.  This could be fun.