1.28.2009

Summer Quilts

These are the summer quilts, or: What happened when I just gave in to the fabric. 

1. Sunburst: 
This quilt started from reading beautiful sewing books and finally accepting that I had absolutely no interest in following a pattern. I had swatches of fabric that I loved. I had memories of my mom blocking out queen size quilts and sewing perfect crisp patterns. Part of me wanted to do that, but most of me didn't. I wanted to make hundreds of baby-size quilts that were impossible to describe or make patterns for. So I just started cutting and sewing. 
I cut pieces without measuring and started piecing this soft puzzle together. 
Cotton and linen and flannel. 
Around and around and around. 
It was July 
I was in love with yellow 
It was insanely fun to sew
2. Sun & Grass
I began making this pinwheel sun and couldn't decide what to do with it. 
And then it seemed like there should be a landscape around it.
Which made sense because what could be better than
fields of green calico and silk.

3. Little Boxes
This was the closest I got to sewing a formal quilt. The little japanese house & bird fabric is ridiculously adorable. Seriously, don't your ovaries explode a little bit just looking at it? 
This was a very simple pieced quilt with larger boxes in the right bottom that tumble into smaller boxes. 
When it was finished, I spent car rides and hours on couches hand stitching around the houses. 
I fell in love with orange thread and the little orange birds flying behind the houses.

2 comments:

  1. These quilts would be wonderful not just for babies, but for college students leaving home for the first time...

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  2. The quilt with the houses is so lovely; it makes my heart ache.

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