I’m very happy to say that the children started school yesterday – yeah hooray! You might think that after having spent all day, every day with them for the entire summer I might have done something fun with myself like go and have a pedicure or a coffee morning with the other moms. Nope. I know how to really have fun.
I came home and changed no less than seven light bulbs, a few of which required me to stand tip-toe at the top of a six foot ladder. In my stairwell. If that’s not an adrenalin rush, I don’t know what is.
One of the first things I did upon returning home from vacation was to change all the bedding, including quilts. I washed and stowed the Broken Star quilt for another year and put on what I think of as my late summer quilt.
I made this quilt at least five years ago using a variety of bali / batiks and marble fabrics. It’s a fairly simple pattern that really lets the gorgeous fabric sing. My original plan was to use black sashing between the blocks but once I had all the blocks done, black seemed too harsh so I opted for navy blue.
It’s a bit difficult to see, but I hand quilted swirly suns using rainbow variegated thread in the center of the blocks.
I backed this quilt with a large scale bamboo and hibiscus print that is all in shades of blue. It was a print I fell in love with at first sight while fabric shopping in Dubai one day and bought acres of, figuring that one day I would use it as for backing. This quilt was just the perfect candidate.
I was sort of thinking of making each of the children a Halloween quilt this year, but somehow I think that’s a project I should have started in May if I was going to finish this year!
Why not start the Halloween quilts now to be in sync with the present season rather than in the spring when you want to be using a totally different color scheme? Then you can put them away when Halloween time is gone and finish them some time before NEXT fall when the mood strikes you? (Did you notice how I managed to write two really bad grammatically constructed sentences there?)
by Mama Pea August 30th, 2010 at 3:25 pmI have thought of that, just not that organized as yet
by Jenyfer August 30th, 2010 at 3:42 pmWhat a lovely quilt! You’re right, the blue fits right in!
by anny cook September 1st, 2010 at 3:11 pm