Quilting

I took some time away from knitting to quilt.  My mom is a quilter and she was here the past few days to visit and attend the big quilt show, the International Quilt Festival.  I was inspired at the thought of all those beautiful quilts and knew with my mom here, she'd be glad to help me with my quilting efforts.  

I knew what I wanted to make.  I loved the quilt on the cover of the winter edition of Simple Quilts and Sewing (see small photo of the the cover at the left in the link).  But rather than brights, I wanted to use my violet fabric.  I've been buying fabric with violets for years.  (My sorority flower is the violet.)  I just needed a solid color that would tie everything together.  I went to a quilt store and found the green.

Before my mom arrived I cut all the fabric and assembled the blocks that consist of both violet fabric and green.  I should add that I also did a lot of dehoarding (including taking the old printer and broken cameras to the electronics recycling place and shredding a whole bunch of stuff--really, why did I think I needed to save those old pay stubs and bank statements for so long) in my office/library.  I thought the clean, uncluttered floor would be a good place to lay out the quilt and I could shut that room's door to keep the livestock out.

We laid out the blocks, looked, rearranged, and came up with a pleasing distribution.  I sewed everything together.  Mom kept track of things like which way to press the seams and how to logically put the parts together, stuff an experienced quilter knows but might have taxed my brain.

Here's the result.

And a close-up.

Not bad, huh?

Now it needs borders.  I found some great fabrics at the quilt show for this.  We'll work on the borders next time we get together.