I actually meant to post this back in October and for some reason never got around to it. So, here goes! Better late than never!
My hairdresser was going to have a baby, so of course I had to make her a quilt. When she requested grey with brights, well, I knew that was right up my alley!
And I dithered about trying to decide on the BEST pattern to do for far too long. I finally came to a decision. I had so much fun doing my Mod 9-Patch that I thought a variation of that would be fun. I was inspired by Kristy Daum's Parallel quilt pattern as well. (Kristy's Modernized D9P is the tute I used to make my Mod 9-Patch)
Here is my start. Not too exciting yet, is it?
I realized that I'd used the red and the hot pink for all the corners, so then I made some more 9-patches with the background in the corners to break that up a little. Just sewing by the seat of my pants, as usual.
Eventually I got it all done and even quilted it all myself. It's not much fun to wrestle a quilt around under the presser foot in the summer heat, but I persevered and finished. I quilted straight-ish lines vertically, which I like a lot. Some of my spacing is a little goofy and it's not perfect, but that's OK. I was more concerned with DONE.
Here it is, with DH being my quilt holder. I think it came out OK!
 |
detail shot 1
 |
detail shot 2
And here's a shot including the cute flannel I put on the back. I love that zebra that you can almost see, so I thought the black&white binding echoed that, and it goes with the front well also.
I put a label on it and gifted it to my hairdresser. She loved it!
My local guild had our quilt show at the end of September, and I've had my annual post-quilt-show-loss-of-motivation. It happens every year. I started doing some random sewing, but I can't seem to concentrate on any of the projects I should be working on.
I had to interrupt my sewing to do Thanksgiving host duties, and now I've gotten an icky cold with a terrible cough. I don't even feel like going into the quilt studio, so I'm taking good care of myself this week, in hopes that the cold goes away soon. I've got more to share with you of what I've done lately, and I hope to post more soon. I'm just hanging out in the office with my computer and my vaporizer! *cough*
By the way, I saw on IG that Cheryl Arkison, co-author of Sunday Morning Quilts, is on The Quilt Show this week, and you can see it for FREE! She demos both making slabs, and improv quarter circles (think Drunkard's Path). Here's the link if you want to watch it. I loved it!
