Modern Day Quilts

Have you visited Modern Day Quilts yet?  It’s my kind of blog – all eye candy.  One lovely quilt each day.  Creamsicles was featured there a couple of days ago and boy was I flattered.  Thanks Heather!

Patience

I realized something about my hobby today.  One reason I enjoy quilting is because quilts are patient. 

I was a scrapbooker for awhile, but I found that once I started a layout or a photobook I needed to finish it in one sitting or I would loose my vision of what I was creating.  It was hard to dive back in to a project that was started more than a week before. 

With quilting, I can set aside a quilt and leave it for quite a bit of time and then come back to it without missing a beat - I can pick up right where I left off.  Why is that?  I have a quilt it my closet that I started YEARS ago.  There it sits – patiently waiting for it’s turn to be quilted. 

With as crazy as life can get sometimes, it’s nice to have a patient hobby. 

April Showers

This year we’ve had our fill of April showers.  Thank you very much.  I’m SO ready for May flowers. So.  Very.  Ready.

After the terrifically damp weather we’ve had, I had no problems coming up with a name for this quilt:  April Showers



Remember this quilt?  Well after playing around with the layout a little, I finally decided on layout #2.





I’m really happy with the end result.  Originally I thought I wanted more gray in the front of the quilt, but I found that I liked it better as the backing.  Oh, I LOVE the back.





For the quilting I did some sweet little loopies – its one of my favorite ways to quilt.  It just flows so gracefully and it’s just charming I think.






The binding is a coordinating print from the same Riley Blake line (Rainy Days and Mondays.)  I didn’t include any of it in the quilt itself – I saved it all for the binding and I’m glad I did!  The finished quilt measures 38 x 40, and it’s listed in the shop!

Creamsicles

So this is technically not a recently finished quilt.  It’s been done for months, but I haven’t listed it in my shop because I have struggled to get some photos that I’m satisfied with.  It's caused me quite a bit of trouble, really.  I’m not quite sure why this quilt in particular was so much more challenging.  The front of the quilt always came out quite florescent looking (ew) and the back just the opposite.  I'm hoping all of you photography pros will just tell me that orange is a difficult color to photograph and then I can move on. 

Last week I tried again and finally got some great photos (despite the wind).

 

[This is me laughing because of the trouble the wind was causing.]

My inspiration for this quilt came from my favorite summertime treat – creamsicles.  Around here they’re called creamies.  Orange on the outside, creamy vanilla in the center – so delicious!

 

The back is my favorite – so lovely and simple.



I went for a simple binding as well – just the solid orange.  Is that orange?  Or would you call it peach?  It’s not salmon….  I’m not even sure what to call that.  It’s delightful.  That’s what that is.

Creamsicles is now listed for sale in the shop!  Quilt is now sold, but I'm happy to do a custom order if you'd like one too!



[edited to add]

I had a request for a full-view photo of this quilt.  Here you go!

 

Progress Report

One on the wall:

Another one ready to cut:




























And one ready for quilting: