Just Takes 2™ Benjamin Biggs Quilt Block 13

by Gay on 10:06 pm in Antique Quilt, Applique Quilts, Block of the Month, Just Takes 2, News, Site Updates, Uncategorized

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Happy New Year everyone! I feel like 2014 flew right by and I'm still trying to catch up.
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Today is the beginning of the second half of the Just Takes 2 Benjamin Biggs quilt and we'll be working on the centerpiece block in the quilt.

Eleanora M. Biggs
July 20th 1848

By the Ladies For
Benjamin Franklin
Biggs 1848

There are beautiful sentiments inked in the four corners of the block. I think it was a brave soul who dared write on such a pretty block. I'd be scared to death I'd make a mistake and ruin the whole thing!

Flowers seek the light, their beauties to display,
The leaf will smile the same by night as day
There is the smile that no cloud can o'recast,
The flowers and leaves are thine own to the last.

The stars that gem life's morning sky,
Smile sweetly o'er the now;
And flowers around thy pathway lie,
And roses crown thy brow ~

Should pleasure, at its birth
Fade like the hues of even,
Turn thou away from earth,
There's rest for thee in heaven.

Life is but a shadow - save a promise given
Which lights up sorrow with a fadelys ray:
I touch the scepter! - with a hope in heaven
Come, turn thy spirit from the world away.

They're all beautiful verses. Hopefully I have the wording correct. I can't decide which one is my favorite and there isn't anything I don't like about this block. It's just a treasure any way you look at it. The pretty little scallops quilted around the corner inkings are just darling. Here's a picture of the fantastic blue ombre fabric used in the block.

When I looked closely at all the flowers you can see how the blue area was fussy cut from a larger print or stripe that had come chocolate brown in it. The brown shows at the tips on a couple of the flowers near the signature and inscription.