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It's always exciting when a quilt is completed. This one is from a set of Cherrywood fat quarters given to me in 2022. It took me a while to decide what I wanted to do. What I did know for sure is that I didn't want little tiny bits - these fabrics needed to be left big. I found a couple of beige-brownish neutrals and used a shadowbox setting that just barely shows up. And to make this a quilt of size, I had to find a couple of fabrics from my stash, but I think they blend well with the Cherrywoods.
Most of my backing fabrics are white. My answer was to find scraps that read as brownish or tannish. And actually I like the scrappy look of these warn neutrals. Some of this quilt is quilted by machine. But each block has some hand quilting, just enough to keep all the layers together.
The second completed project was actually done in the summer of 2022. This quilt features those lovely e bond prints. Each block was hand quilted and then joined together. The result was a quilt that was 60 x 80, the size of the top of a queen mattress. My sister Paula moved from St. Joe to Ann Arbor, and I offered her a quilt for her guest room. She chose this one. But...it needed a drop all the way around. The resulting quilt is 94" x 98". Of course I love how the borders fit in with the original, and I think she will, too.
The back is an assortment of various fabrics - you can see that in the last picture. Now? Onto one of the several projects that need hand quilting - my favorite winter evening pastime!
