During the Christmas Break I tucked in to complete a quilt I'd begun a year ago or so.
An annoying neck injury prevented me from making any progress for the last five months, but as I have seemed to recover, I took full advantage of the break from scholarly computer activities to luxuriate in fabric.
Details: the front is a full-cloth Nani Iro watercolour print; the back a shot-cotton apricot by Kaffe Fassett; the binding my hand-made Liberty of London "Tatum." All fabric was purchased at Purl Soho.
I quilted around each flower, leaf, and bird using an ivory embroidery floss and comfortable stitches; I cheerfully bid adieu to the teeny-tiny needlework that characterized my precise 20-something quilts. (That's in terms of age, not quilt quantity, BTW.)
3 comments:
Oh, that is gorgeous! Hope your wrist is all better.
Thank you, Kristin! It was actually a neck injury (disc trouble--super-frustrating) but I seem to be mostly better :-)
Stunning! I've never quilted (although did play with piecework/crazy-quilting once upon a time) -- but I can see the appeal here, especially the chance to luxuriate in wonderful fabrics -- the richly subtle quality of that shot cotton calls out for a closer look...
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