Project Quilting 17.4: Of Another Era

This week's Project Quilting challenge was a fun one: Of Another Era!  We could interpret "era" however we wanted, and I chose a project that hit several of them.  I'll start in reverse order with the barn in the splashscreen above.  This is where I took a lot of my early quilt photos because I liked the big white wall as a neutral background (see Temperature Quilt or Epic Rainbow Bowtie as examples).

It didn't work so well today because we stopped after basketball and it was too snowy for my slide-wearing quilt holder, but I did snap a photo from the parking lot.  Presenting the Button Box baby quilt!

Button Box is based on a vintage 1930s design, and I shrunk the pattern down to a baby size myself (it's square, just a wind issue).  I'd also like to note that making a piano key border has been on my "quilty wish list" forever and I don't know why it took me so long to finally make one!  I'm happy to mark this wish as complete at last.

In addition to the photography location and the vintage pattern, I covered two other personal eras.  In my current quilting era, I usually use a blender or dark solid as my background fabric, but when I first started quilting I often used a white solid (see Garden Quilt - the others predate my blog!).  Finally, my prints are from a jelly roll I received back in my subscription box days.  It's a 2017 fabric line called "Vintage Adventure" (I didn't see the name until after I knew I was going to use it).

I used up all the extra strips (and the piano key border) in a fancy pieced back.  I did have to supplement this a little bit - there are two solid stripes from last challenge's Under the Sea Fair Day, two jelly roll strips from my scrap box, and a little bit of a floral print yardage.  I quilted the quilt with a meander in white and used a subtle Lori Holt red print for the binding.

Once again, I made one Farm Fresh block as a leader and ender in addition to my Space Parade blocks.  I'm about a third of the way through making Space Parade blocks and almost out of my pre-cut green print squares, so don't be surprised if my next Project Quilting project is green as an excuse to double dip in cutting more up!

I'm linking up my successful finish with the Project Quilting linky party.

Thanks for stopping by!