Quilts from the New York Sewer

April 2001

Buckeye Beauty

Buckeye This is a computer image of my Buckeye Beauty quilt. I planned it in Electric Quilt, version 4. I scanned my fabrics in, and the quilt looks pretty much exactly like this image! The only difference is that I have not quilted or bound this top yet. I am waiting for Tighe to finish building me a Hinterberg Frame so that I can hand quilt it in style. I have the quilt marked with a really cool design of diagonal lines.

UPDATE! - My Hinterberg frame has been completed, complements of my boyfriend Tighe. I have loaded the quilt into the frame and the quilting is well under way!!
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Here are a couple pictures of the real quilt top!

I machine pieced this quilt very carefully, so that all the points are sharp and line up correctly. I have been known to be a sloppy piecer, so this was a big accomplishment for me. Another thing about this quilt is that I used a lot of colors and fabrics, compared to what I usually do. I am very timid when it comes to choosing and matching fabrics. I really like the way it came out, concerning the dark and light values, and the overall country look of the muted plaids and checks and bubblegum pinks.

Once it is quilted, I plan to insert dark pink piping between the last border and the binding, something else I have never tried before. The quilt top measures 55x65. I have been trying to make my quilts a little smaller, so that I can finish more of them, but I still haven't gotten into making them all wall hanging size. This will make a great lap quilt.

The original idea came from Quick Quilts by Susan Ramey Wright. There is a beautiful rose and blue Buckeye Beauty quilt inside. This is a great book, with many different patterns. It was one of my first books, but it may be hard to find, some stores tell me it is out of print. I changed the size, fabric, borders and quilting, as well as the method of sewing the blocks (I used some new fangled piecing techniques). The pattern is presumably from Ohio, which is nicknamed the Buckeye State, because of the many buckeye trees that grow there. The buckeye is a variety of chestnut, and when settlers arrived, the trees were used to build their log cabins. I have never been to Ohio, but it did not stop me from making this quilt. Like with many quilt pattern names, you may have seen a very different looking quilt also called a Buckeye Beauty, or you may have seen this quilt called Jacob's Ladder or the Underground Railroad.

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Quick Quilts by Susan Ramey Wright

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