OMCOC - the Doric version!



As ever, totes awesome #husbandsholdingquilts action from my scoobs! If you told me that i would be finishing this quilt while in total lock down from a global pandemic i would have laughed and thought you a little bit bonkers. But we are where we are. So! where did this start?

I love Lucy Engels, she is a doric quine, Inverurie - ken? I have been collecting her fabric since she first started screen printing, the orange fabric at the front here is from her very first collection under the name of "skinny malinky quilts"

What about these bees eh?

anyhoo, I loved her pattern "One more cup of coffee" - OMCO beautiful and it used pappersaxten templates which i adore and have the full set!

I have been loathed to cut into my stash of Lucys fabric but it was begging me to be used. Hence the concept of the 'Doric' OMCO quilt was born. Doric because that is the dialect used in the North East of Scotland we both come from.

It took me a good while to strap on my big girl pants and actually cut into the fabric. But it got easier!

I tended to work on it in the early morning, picking away at it little by little

this was the finished top! 

To complete the Doric ness I got the honorary Doric quine (female) @cumbrianlongarmer to quilt it. turns out Cath had studied at Aberdeen University at the same time i worked there. Who knew we would hook up later in life through our love of quilts and quilting? we never knew each other in Aberdeen but must have crossed paths!

Anyway i decided on custom quilting for this, this one is a keeper, I wanted Doric words quilted in the shape of a crossword. Furryboots is a play on how Doric fowk (folk=people) say "where about" so furryboots ye fae? = Where about are you from?

fit like = how are you?

doric quine = North east female - Quine can mean young girl or older female, i tend to use it for all females.

sottir = mess as in 'fit a sottir ye made there!' = 'what a mess you made there!'

Ken= know, its often used at the end of a sentence - "I telt him, ken?" = "I told him, you know?

Sine, well thats how i spelled syne = since

Affa rare, well  you can probably guess that one, it means very nice but its more than that, it means really really nice! affa means really or very.

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I think this is in my top 3 favorite quilts ever, even more special because of its connection to my roots. Skip back up and look at the finished quilt can you see the two pieces of hot green binding in between the hot pink binding? Thanks to lovely Kim for that suggestion. Perfect way to finish it. I had been going to enter it fir the FOQ, maybe 2021 😉