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Sleepy Hollow - Mandalay Entertainment - 2000 |
Sleepy Hollow Quilt - a movie based quilting project
On with the bucket list exploration. Now here is a very beautiful quilt. The quilt features in the Tim Burton movie Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci from 2000 by Mandalay Entertainment. At some point the frightened Ichabod Crane comes to his senses lying beneath and later on top of a beautiful quilt, that has been subject to discussion on many a blog post already. Some quilters have even tried their hand at making their own versions already.
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Sleepy Hollow - Mandalay Entertainment - 2000 |
Note how the rows of triangles are stacked on top of each other. Furthermore, it seems as if the quilt has not been bound with any sort of bias tape as you can see below. It rather looks as if the edges were tucked in on all sides and sewn closed. I would be curious to know what the quilt backing of the movie quilt looks like. You only get a glimpse in the movie.
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Sleepy Hollow - Mandalay Entertainment - 2000 |
I have already lined up some cotton prints as well as some un-bleached linen I plan to use for this project.
The colour range is way off what I would usually go for – me being a candy and jewelled colours kind of girl and all – but I want to retain the antique look. Modern prints will not cut the mustard here.
As you can see my version would veer somewhat towards purple. It is a bit hard to see in this picture but the white print with the purple flowers in the upper right corner might not quite work with the cream or egg shell coloured linen.
As I am in no hurry, I will have time to build the pallet.
This project falls into the definitely achievable category… once the list is cleared of a few other projects that is.
=)
The colour range is way off what I would usually go for – me being a candy and jewelled colours kind of girl and all – but I want to retain the antique look. Modern prints will not cut the mustard here.
As you can see my version would veer somewhat towards purple. It is a bit hard to see in this picture but the white print with the purple flowers in the upper right corner might not quite work with the cream or egg shell coloured linen.
As I am in no hurry, I will have time to build the pallet.
This project falls into the definitely achievable category… once the list is cleared of a few other projects that is.
=)