Friday, October 1, 2021

Two Finishes

I'm celebrating two finishes today, but only one is a quilt. 

I finished quilting and binding my Kool Kaleidoscope. After running into issues with borders, I decided to leave it as is, no additional borders.


I love the concept and the process; my result here is okay. I've seen Kool Kaleidoscopes made by others that I like better. It's all about the fabric selection, and I have too many similar color/similar value orange prints next to each other. I do like the black batik with teal highlights. 


I got a bit too fussy with the quilting and it doesn't even show; I should have just done a large allover meander with one color thread in the medallion. The border has a medium meander in black thread and that's fine. Here's the quilting on the back, kind of spider web-ish. Which I guess is appropriate for October! 


The finish I'm really excited about was made by my husband, a customized pueblo ladder to hang quilts on for my family room.


Pueblo ladders are narrower, too narrow to hang bulky quilts. He built this from two pueblo ladders, an 8 foot and a 4 foot, by removing the rungs and cannibalizing the smaller ladder to make new rungs. This 8 foot ladder was originally only 8" between the uprights at the top. He spliced the rungs together to get enough width, about 14" between the uprights at the top and 18" at the bottom. I love it! It fills the space nicely and allows me to display some quilts. I plan to leave the top rung blank to show it off. 

He worked on this for several weeks and it turned out beautiful. You can't see any of the splices in the rungs, he blended them so well. I'm so glad - and lucky! - to have such a handy husband.  


Link Ups: Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Alycia Quilts, Wendy's Quilts and More, My Quilt Infatuation

15 comments:

  1. Yes, lucky. He's handy and handsome, to boot!

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  2. Great quilt ladder and fabulous Kool Kaleidoscope quilt. Just perfect without additional borders.

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  3. Congratulations on your Kool Kaleidoscope finish. I know what you mean about sometimes losing the quilting; I don't always predict well if the extra time will be worth it, too. And the quilt ladder looks wonderful, what a sweet handy husband!

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  4. okay! Simpler than mine, I bet the fussy quilting does show in person. And I got caught up quilting my first kaleidoscope with lots of quilting too. It's Christmas fabrics and when I hang it up I'm always stunned at the way it turned out. Like magic kind of. I love seeing yours in the photos and it's a lesson in let the graphics carry the piece

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  5. The black background really makes the colors pop; beautiful quilt! The ladder is fabulous too; hubby did an incredible job!

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  6. Congrats on TWO lovely finishes!! Your quilt turned out beautifully, Jan. DH's quilt ladder looks fabulous. What a wonderful addition to the family room!

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  7. congrats to you on your quilty finish and congrats to hubby on the ladder modification finish!

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  8. I'm still waiting for my hubby to make me a quilt ladder, so I'm envious of yours.

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  9. Love your Kaleidoscope! The ladder is pretty cool, too.

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  10. Love, love, love that ladder!! So appropriate.

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  11. Love your Kool Kaledioscope quilt. Maybe more contrast would have been”better”, but yours is so interesting. It looks pretty close what you’d see in a Kaledioscope. Colors are great.

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  12. I love your Kool Kaledioscope quilt. Some colors/values are close, but it has the effect of blending into the next color the way a Kaledioscope does. Your colors are great. Good job.

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  13. Fabulous quilt ladder - perfect for that spot.

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  14. THose are Both AWESOME finishes!!! what fun to have a ladder in your house - and its kinda southwesterny!! and the quilt - Oh wow!! its a stunner

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  15. I love your quilt and your ladder is wonderful! Hugs,

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