Saturday, September 28, 2013

Purple Tops and Purple Buttons

QuiltyCat's color choices unified her sampler blocks. Note the different
shades of green and violet in the cornerstones: scrappy yet tied together.

Many of you put your blocks together with purple sashings and borders, using the symbolic colors of the English suffragettes, who used a variety of names and a variety of purples. Their consistent emphasis on 
violet, green and white communicated their message and their identity as the most radical of the British groups.






Cookie's Creek sashed with a purple print,
the background of her sunflower block in the center.




Beryl used many purple shades in the sashing cornerstone squares.





Karen in Tucson (1 of 3 tops)
She's framed a variety of violets with a bright purple inner border.


Susan at Stitching Witch
Purples pushed almost to grays. She also used grayed vintage photos.

Scroll down to recent posts to see how other quilters used a range of violets.

And see a post I did on Marci H's blocks here:


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  2. Thanks Barbara for posting my quilt top on your virtual quilt show..
    I loved the history of this BOW and how hard our Grandmothers had to fight for what we have today....
    Mandy (quiltycat) from OZ

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  3. More gorgeous quilts!
    Seeing these quilts each week eases the withdrawal from getting a new block pattern each Saturday.

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    1. Yes Marci its great seeing all the beautiful finished quilts each week

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  4. it is wonderful how quilts look so different when worked in different colour ways

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