quilt

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As promised, here's the mockup of the White Librarian quilt. It, too, is intended to be a pretty easy little quilt.  I'm including a shot of the original quilt for reference.  The pattern is called "Bricks and Stones," from redpepperquilts, and is available for sale on etsy. I bought the pattern even though I knew it was for a lap-sized quilt; some knowledge of multiplication tables and Adobe Illustrator would fix the rest of the problem.

I tried to stay pretty true to the pattern, because I really like it.

This, too, is a quilt I intend to keep. The fabrics were a gift to me from Jacob, and were all chosen with me in mind. It is intended as a companion to the Red Librarian quilt.

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When we were over at Hallie and Remy's a few months back, she asked if she could show me something. When we went to the back bedroom, she pulled out two sets of quilt squares.  One was hexagons and the other squares.  There were 29 squares in all, not enough for a full adult-sized quilt, and she wondered if anything could be done with them. I said yes.

A few months later, she announced she was pregnant with her first child.  (A girl, or so the ultrasounds say so far.)  I don't remember who suggested the idea of turning these unfinished squares into a quilt for her baby, but it seemed right and perfect. I took the squares but wasn't sure what to do.  The fabrics are old, but I don't know how old, and they have that aged cream-and-tan patina that only comes with aged cotton.  Modern prints would look out of place and jarring, and white would only make the fabrics look even more aged than they already were.