The Sew and Sew Row Quilts

Hello, hello! A month or so ago the Sew and Sews formulated a plan to do a row quilt to donate for charity. We had some loose ideas, a general plan and a focus fabric. We all went home, dug through the stash and whipped up our rows. Then we had all these mis-matched rows that seemingly had no connection whatever. Well listen to me, those little misfits just met our Rose and look what happened. We have two quilts. Entirely different. One uses the 'focus' fabric.

We are all so pleased with the outcomes of this project. Rose took the responsibility of being the coordinator for the process and I wanted to share the flimsy's with you. She used the same sashing between the rows for each quilt and that became the cohesive element.

See what you can do with an idea? Think about all your sample blocks sitting in storage. Could you marry them in a similar way? Do you have bits and pieces lying about that need a direction? I was not so sure about the row quilt process because they just didn't balance to me. Coming from a traditional background I sometimes struggle with the abstract concepts so well documented on the blogs and now in shows. I am getting there but I need much more study. While these quilts are all traditional blocks the row concept gives them a modern interpretation.

Thank you, thank you Rose. I always learn so much from you. You are an artist who happens to quilt.