{"id":11821,"date":"2011-03-16T02:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=11821"},"modified":"2015-01-21T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T02:15:40","slug":"rerun-harry-potter-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/rerun-harry-potter-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rerun–Harry Potter Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>\"HarryPotterquilt\"<\/a><\/div>\n

\nOur family is making good progress getting Aunt Aileen situated in a good nursing home. But there is still a great deal left to do. We are so grateful for the help of my other aunt, her sister Rheeta, who has come from Indiana to help clear out the apartment, make other necessary arrangements and visit with Aunt Aileen. Rheeta’s presence will go a long way in helping Aunt Aileen adjust to her new surroundings.<\/em><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/dl>\n
<\/dl>\n

So it’s\u00c2\u00a0 time for another re-run…..<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve added more information and details about the quilt than was originally posted.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope those of you who have not yet read the earlier post will enjoy it.\u00c2\u00a0It’s the best I can do right now. ~~~~~ <\/em><\/p>\n

Being ever mindful that Rebecca likes and specifically requested bright colors, I went to the drawing board.\u00c2\u00a0 I like to start a nursery decoration plan with a quilt.\u00c2\u00a0 That establishes the color scheme and allows many spin offs and opportunities for accessories.\u00c2\u00a0 But with all the visual fodder in the lengthy, seven book Harry Potter series, it was necessary to narrow the focus.<\/p>\n

Deciding on “fantastic creatures, I set to work, looking for designs that could be edited and customized to meet the description of critters from unicorns to fairies (the easy ones) to a thesteral, Pygmy Puff and snidget.\u00c2\u00a0 The search was more\u00c2\u00a0fun than a scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"HarryPotterHedwig\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hedwig was my favorite design, purchased and stitched out exactly as\u00c2\u00a0digitized.\u00c2\u00a0 I got more creative with some of the other creatures.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"HarryPotterpuffskein\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Pygmy Puff is nestled on a Mary Engelbreit overstuffed chair.\u00c2\u00a0 I extracted some fringe from another design and created the fluffy\u00c2\u00a0Puff.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Harry-Pottersnidget\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The\u00c2\u00a0Quidditch snidget is the combination of a simple circle and a beak, wing and feet taken from other birds.\u00c2\u00a0 A border was added to fill out the otherwise skimpy block.<\/p>\n

The pixies are covered with a layer of vinyl, in an effort to recreate their glass jar container as I remember it from the book.\u00c2\u00a0 In the movie, they were confined to a lidded basket.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"HarryPotterpixies\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

By the time that was mentioned to me, the block was not only finished but inserted into the quilt top.\u00c2\u00a0 I chose not to double check the accuracy of\u00c2\u00a0my memory with the book.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know that this is incorrect, please refrain from enlightening me.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a jar!!!!!!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"HarryPotterthesteral1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The thesteral is taken from Laurel Burch’s Mythical Horses<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 collection by Bernina.\u00c2\u00a0 While not entirely compliant with J.K. Rowling’s description, the design seemed to fit the spirit of the magical beasts.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"HarryPotterPadfoot\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Of course, Padfoot had to be a black Labrador Retriever.\u00c2\u00a0 The book’s\u00c2\u00a0description of him is a little scarier, but in my mind’s eye, I chose to see a Lab like our own beloved pair of long departed canine scamps, Jacob and Esau.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"HarryPotterStar1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Stars seemed to be a logical alternating block.\u00c2\u00a0 At the magical Rainbow’s End Quilt Shop in Dunedin (Florida), we found an extravagant\u00c2\u00a0variety of fabrics in the colors Rebecca had chosen.\u00c2\u00a0 Their huge selection of batiks offered suitably unfeminine pieces for a boy quilt.\u00c2\u00a0 A Halloween fabric with tiny bats was another welcome addition to our stack.<\/p>\n

Each embroidered block was echo quilted, free motion, around the design.\u00c2\u00a0 The star blocks and remainder of the quilt was quilted in the ditch.<\/p>\n

The random angle pieced border was Rebecca’s idea, suggestive, she thought, of the Weasley’s irregular home.<\/p>\n

Alastair is 2 years-old now and the quilt still hangs above his crib.\u00c2\u00a0 It still makes his parents smile.\u00c2\u00a0 And it still makes me wonder about those pixies.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0 Our family is making good progress getting Aunt Aileen situated in a good nursing home. But there is still a great deal left to do. We are so grateful for the help of my other aunt, her sister Rheeta, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,19,18],"tags":[879,878,877,881,882,876,880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11821"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33465,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions\/33465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}