No cushions to see today (are you surprised? Relieved?) since I haven't progressed at all on those ones I gave you a glimpse of yesterday. in fact, I think they're still in that exact same spot on the ironing board...yep, still there (just checked!)
But hey! I have quilts to show you - ones I've actually finished and photographed and everything! Wanna see?
I have named this one Provence, since it evokes thoughts of long, languid, late Summer lunches outside in the French countryside, the heat of the afternoon radiating through the grapevines overhead and from the wooden bench seat to your bare shoulders. The occasional glint of sunlight on the deep azure - sometimes almost purple - of the Mediteranean Sea. The platter of fat black olives, succulent marinated artichoke hearts and eggplant, plum tomatoes so ripe they explode as you bite into them, hunks of crusty bread, wedges of creamy camembert and a stack of piquant emmentaler, accompanied by the most luxurious merlot**. Yum
Anyway, back to the quilt! A fun little thing. I'd seen some quilts around using a similar sort of pattern (ranging from very regimented and uniform blocks to decidedly haphazard and wonky) and really like the idea of it, but had no idea where the pattern came from. So, I had a little bit of a fiddle around, and figured out a way to make the blocks. And voila!
The back is some improv piecing, with a little white for light relief. I stippled those entire quilt with a lovely dusty blue, and hand bound it in a pieced strip. The quilt measures about 37" x 44" after washing, in all its crinkly goodness.
I'm planning on listing this in my Etsy shop. (as soon as I grown some balls and decide it's good enough. Big hairy balls.)
**This is a little odd, given that I have never been to Provence. And don't drink. And am not at all partial to olives. Then again, maybe it makes me think of late Summers in the Wairarapa. Yes, that's more like it - then everything reads perfectly. Well, maybe we need to swap the Pacific for the Mediterranean, but well, you get my drift!
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