Pretty in Pink - Pink Stamps make up a pretty stamp collage quilt design

Traditional patchwork quilt patterns incorporate all sorts of pretty cotton fabrics. My facebook page recently flagged up a post from the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky (www.quiltmuseum.org) with a beautiful historic 9-patch quilt - very simple in shades of pink but from the civil war period and so wonderfully conserved. Coincidentally I've been working on another simple square design using stamps which are either pink or feature pretty pink designs to make up my stamp collage, "Pretty in Pink".
I recently worried that I had upset stamp collectors who may feel that I should not be using stamps as they could be more useful to collectors, which is  possibly true of course. However, all of these stamps are readily available on the many internet auction sites, through stamp dealers and to swap with other stamp collectors.

Postage stamps used in the collage

In the case of the USA 1938 Presidential Series  I have used quite a few of  the 2c carmine pink stamps featuring John Adams 2nd  President 1797-1801, and the 9c lighter pink featuring William Henry Harrison 9th  President - 1841-1841. My fears were certainly allayed on discovering the vast number of these stamps  printed and the sheer numbers I have myself did give me a clue!
 I found that  1,692,201,400 of the 9c stamp were issued and for the 2c stamp which had several issues throughout 1938 and 1939, a total of   29 BILLION - not million, but billion, were issued! I feel no guilt! I still have many left and would be happy to swap if you're missing one from your collection!
The other stamps I've used are more recent issues : a 1st class Greetings/Flower design from 1998 (GB), and the 33c Pink Rose issued 1999/2000 as well as a few of the  33c USA Valentine Heart stamps, as well as the 2c Pink featuring Thomas Jefferson (3rd President 1801-1809) from the Liberty Issue of 1954-68.

Detail from Stamp Collage patchwork quilt design