Splats

 

Backside of the quilt, this quilt has been done for months I just haven't made the label because I need to sit down and read the manual and learn how to do it or spend a couple hours at the sewing shop and pay for a lesson.  DD picked out the backing and the colors are perfect for the quilt.  It compliments the hand dyed and black and white batik fabrics so well.  I dyed the fabrics close to 20 years ago they have been aging in my closet waiting for the perfect project, and who more appreciative than darling daughter. 

The pattern is Twirla  by Butterfly Threads Quilting.com.  It was fun to sew.....very clear instructions.  I barely put a dent in my stack of hand dyed fabrics,  I must have dyed 20 yards of fabric.

One of these days I will learn how to punch in the letters and store them in memory in my sewing machine and get the label done and send it home with DD.   Until then I'm going to put it on the bed where she sleeps when she comes for a visit. I'll enjoy it every time I walk past her room.

I just swung an arc from point to point in each block.  The seams made for an awkward intersection in the middle of the block so I did a little daisy flower in the center of each asterisk, splat isn't that what the younger generation calls them?!?

--Ann--

Ta dada done

 

 

Done with time to spare!  I'm calling this Flash Bang thanks to Ramona  at Rosebuds and Doodlebugs, she suggested the name for the quilt.  Those colors do come at you with a flash and then the black bang! Its finished  all I have left to do is sew on the label and drape it over the couch and enjoy it until I wrap it  up on Saturday. link to the designer --Ann--                    

quilt top together

 

These blocks were so fast to sew together then to trim and sew them together again.  I used sashing between the blocks when I did this pattern months ago the sashing hides a mulititude of sins when I was trimming the blocks there are a lot of seams that don't line up straight.  It doesn't take much to distort the block when all the seams are on a bias.  I could drive myself crazy arranging these separating two blocks that are similar in color or print leads to a problem where the next block lands so this is the way they are.  Here's a link to the pattern.  Spring and winter are still duking it out here, one day its calm sunny and  almost warm then the north wind blows in again sometimes with a few snowflakes.  Good thing there is more fabric in the stash.  --Ann--