Cinzia White Designs: October 2019

Collection 8 - Where Did That Name Come From?

Collection 8 - can you believe we have come so far already? This collection contains a few of my favourite blocks, many of which were made early on as can be told by the soft pastel fabrics that were used.

C8 Spring Surprise

Spring Surprise was given its name because of the soft fabrics reminded me of the pansies that were blooming at the time.

C8 Too Many Thorns

Too Many Thorns - Just like our roses so many points and so many thorns.

Banana Custard - this must have been made in winter. With my sweet tooth banana custard is one of my many favourites.

C8 Banana Custard

C8 City Living

City Living - the tightness of this design suggested what I see as life in the city - Too much! Too close! The dream of distant open spaces.

Rising Mist - Umbrellas within a sea of blue. What better name?

C8 Rising Mist

C8 Summer Picnic

Summer Picnic - Doesn't the floral fabric remind you of those frocks we all wore when we were younger.

King of Versailles - yes this was made during one of our visits to our son who was studying in Paris at the time. A beautiful city and so suited to us. We loved the early morning walks where many streets were empty as the city didn't wake up until 10:00.

C8 King of Versailles

Collection 7 - Where Did That Name Come From?

Merry Margaret
This single block is one of the corner collections. The corner and side collections are made of extended hexagons to fill the spaces so the quilt is easy to finish off rather than being in and out as hexagonal quilts often are.

So who is Margaret?
She is a close friend of mine who I worked with for many years .... well really simply shared an office. Both of us worked with special needs children but in different areas of need. We were both itinerant teachers and so were based at one school for all of our administration but travelled to various schools to help the children on our caseloads. It was hoped with support from teachers such as ourselves that children with special needs could remain in a regular class in their local school. Both of us would visit three, four or sometimes more schools in a day.

Margaret took up patchwork when we worked together ... I seemed to have that effect on many coworkers introducing them to my obsession :-) She enjoyed traditional quilts and at one time took a particular like to the 1930s fabrics.

This fabric came from her stash and the heart at the bottom represents our mutual friendship and the star was added to give the block the appearance of a flower.

Collection 6 - Where did that name come from?

This collection contains one of my favourite blocks Crystal Dreams, the fabrics do nothing to showcase the design but I still love it.

Short Changed was one of the first blocks that were based on a smaller grid with an extra border. The original aim was to leave space for highlighting quilting, but my skills were too poor, atrocious is a more apt description for my machine quilting. Anyway due to my level of quilting skills I ended up leaving the area still plain.. Would like to see someone do something with their skills.

C6 Short Changed

Crystal Dreams was designed to show some flowers in a crystal vase. The diamond cut that is common on many of the crystal vases inspired the design.
Isn't it surprising that two fabrics that looked good together in strips don't come up so well when sewn...and then top it off with my being too lazy to resew the block...viola!

C6 Disappearing Hope

Disappearing Hope was made at a time when things were going pretty badly within my family after an argument with my father. Many things weren't too good at that time, but the block still looks good.

C6 Crystal Dreams

Fake Hands was made around the same time as Disappearing Hope. People pretend to care but spite and jealousy cause a lot of harm..and then they walk away, leaving much damage.

C6 Fake hands

Enter With Care - my eldest son worked for a while at Lucas Heights nuclear reactor and he would joke about consequences of a nuclear mishap. Youth knows no fear.