Provence and More

Block

Center Bloc

 This quilt started out as a hand piecing project. I did hand piece the nine blocks but decided to machine piece the remainder of the quilt in order to complete it faster. It measures 58" x 58" and is 100% cotton. The methods used in this quilt are hand piecing,machine piecing, machine and embroidery machine quilting. The quilt was made almost entirely from the late Doreen Speckman fabric line. The quilt was finished in April 2007.

The quilt was chosen to be part of the "New Quilts of Pennsylvania" exhibition at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XIV, September 6-9,2007 at the Expo Hall Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, PA.

The information sheet attached to the quilt at the show read  -"This quilt is made primarily from Doreen Speckman's "Provence! and Provence II " fabric lines. Most of the fabric was bought at a "Fat Quarter Frenzy" a year after Doreen's untimely death (9/18/99). She was well known as a quilt teacher, lecturer, traveler, a humorist and also for "Peaky and Spike". Now that the "Provence and Provence II fabrics were added to my stash,what quilt was I going to make? I was unfamiliar with utilizing such bright fabrics. This project was going to be a challenge! When I saw Marti Mitchell's "Memories of Provence"I had my answer. The quilt was started using Marti Mitchell's templates. The smaller sunburst blocks were fussy cut, hand pieced and hand appliqued. Those blocks were them machine pieced to construct the quilt. The quilting was done by embroidery machine and conventional machine quilting".