The Green Quilt

The Green Quilt

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I love that almost everyone wears green on St. Patrick's Day.  I wish there were more days where everyone wore the same color. It's like we're all on the same team and the sport is happiness.

I finished the binding on the green quilt last night, threw it in the wash, then laid it out flat to dry overnight.  I decided that I needed to photograph it in front of this yellow bakery.  The bakery is in a busy part of town not far from my place. I called around to see if any of my friends were free and I *love* that I had more than one volunteer for my funny little mission.  This is outside in the middle of the day at a busy intersection.  People are awesome.

Some details on the quilt:
1. It is a riff on a quilt by Denyse Schmidt that can be seen here.
2. I think that block of patchwork on the right is too high.  It bugs me a little.
3. It's 50" x 56"
4. The green is Moda's Dill Green, the binding is Moda's Lime Green.
5. The back is red and magenta batiks.  I like it best when this quilt is tumbled up so you can see the front and the back together.



6. I didn't quilt this myself.  I had the long-armer do it.  I asked for vertical lines in lime green thread about 1cm apart with slight variations in the width. And that's what I got! : )

7. The patchwork bits contain some fabric that was clamped and dyed and some I stamped with a little bunny from The Small Object (love her stuff!)  The dyed blocks are not so sharped-edged because I used found objects to make the shapes (In most cases, some MDF scraps).  Have to say, unless I really wanted this look, I wouldn't use MDF again, it really soaked up the dye and got warped and smelled vaguely bloody.

8. The Green Quilt is a wedding present.  It began as a postcard, given on the day of the wedding.  The newlyweds got to make a few choices and then mail the postcard to me.  It's off to its new home tomorrow! Bon voyage, Greenie!


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