Two posts in one day? Say what?? This is a result of two things- needing to clear my phone of photos (so I am posting them here so I do not lose them) and wanting to share about something I want to do after I share the latest quilts and I want my new goal/project to begin on July 1.
So. Like I said earlier, I've been quilting away the sorrow of missing my husband, and as it turns out, I can sure fill some time with fabric stitching. I have been trying to focus on making things that truly make me happy, and that is generally a combination of beautiful fabric and fairly straight forward design. Let's just say no one has ever described my quilting style as overly complicated :)
After I made the custom quilt I mentioned here, I wanted to make another but infusing pink into the blue.
My third time making this design, and I still love it.
Pretty sure I will be making it again soon, because it just makes me smile.
Simple quilting to echo the frames, with one whimsical line you can see in the next photo.
While making this quilt, it was especially stormy, and while I love a good summer storm, the grayness was playing with my mood. So one night I decided to cut into a couple charm packs of Heather Bailey fabric I'd been keeping for a long time, thinking sewing with sunshiney fabric would be the equivalent of being in sunshine. I was right about that, but wrong about thinking the charm packs were in tact. Halfway through the patchwork rows, I realized I was missing many squares and the quilt would be very small. So I set it aside.
I came back to it a couple weeks ago and decided to make it work, I folded my rectangle of squares together in half and in half again and then sliced it at an angle. I added a thick sashing in Kona Snow to all 4 sides and then stitched the piece I cut off back on. And what I had was a patchwork diamond, framed in snow, with more patchwork in each corner. Still slightly small, I added another border of Snow. None of this would happen if I planned and created like MOST people, but since I make on the fly, I am constantly in 'okay, so what can be plan B' mode. Which is a pain in my backside, but.....I actually like how this quilt turned out. So....... Plus, I am old set in my ways, so I should just embrace it, right?
Heather Bailey fabric sure is good for the soul.
I wasn't sure what to make of all the negative space, so I added some big stitch hand quilting in pink Valdani Pearl Cotton, size 12, that I grabbed from Sunny Day Supply.
I went with a scrappy binding because I could not decide. This quilt is so sunny and delightful. It's in my shop here.
And finally a simple patchwork quilt in pinks and grays. In my opinion, simple patchwork never goes out of style.
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