Hey Everyone, welcome back to Inspirational Sunday.
The other day when I went into the Tim Hortons coffee shop just down the street from the quilt shop to get a bagel I was standing and looking around at the surroundings. This Tim Hortons is really quite tiny with no seating so it is order, pay, pick up and go. As the bagel was being toasted I noticed a row of tiles on the wall and thought I could probably do something cool with that motif.
I asked the girl toasting my bagel if I could take a picture and she said go ahead. She didn’t even look at me strangely almost as if people come in everyday to take pictures of these tiles. Quite sure they don’t but then again there is a quilt shop down the street.
It would look great as an appliqué pattern or quilting motif. It would also work great as the on point centre medallion of a quilt with some fantastic borders added. One day in my spare time I will have to give the pattern a try.
Happy Quilting!
I love finding patterns like that in different places.
Spare time?! LOL
I think it would be beautiful to just reproduce it with the borders exactly like the tile. Maybe do a flanged inner border or use trapunto there to give it some dimension the way the tile appears to be raised there.
Looking forward to seeing what you do with this.
Carol, for sure. There are SO many possibilities with this motif.
Carol, thanks for the great idea – now I know what I am going to do with it.
LOL, I’m a Registered Nurse and you finding quilting motifs in Tim Horton’s reminds me of the standing joke we nurses have. Once you learn to draw blood, you never look at veins in quite the same way again. So, you and I could be standing in line in Timmie’s and you’re looking at wall tiles, thinking of quilting motifs, and I’m looking at the veins in the servers hand, thinking how easy it would be to draw blood or start an IV…