Azaleas in Bloom

My small quilt created with silks and sari fabric is finished!

Inspired by the Winter pattern in Sujata's book.

Quilted by Debra Voigt.

You can read the full reveal post over on my blog.

(including a link to the back story)

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Winter ... renamed First Frost

The last time I posted regarding this quilt, I thought I was almost finished.  After all, I had
both the front & the back "done".  Thank You & More  The front, however, sat on my design wall for a long time because it just didn't seem ... well, like "me".  So I added a pieced border & loved it!  (At last count there were 95 different fabrics in the top.)

When it came to the quilting, I ran into trouble.  It seemed like organic vertical lines would work. But they didn't & for the first time ever I picked out every last stitch over a three day period.  Additionally, the quilt seemed too puffy which I felt detracted from the design so I switched the batting.  And then there was the pieced back which needed to be enlarged because of the border & although I was happy with how it turned out, maybe between the front & the back, there were just too many seams for my home machine to handle.  So I made a new back & plan to turn the first back into a new quilt.

Here's the final finish which I love!  A friend asked me if I would donate it to a fundraiser 
which I did.  Here's hoping someone else will love it, too!

Windmills or Winter ???

This coming weekend I will be going on a quilting retreat and plan to work on another quilt, the Windmills, from Sujata's book.  My plan is to use blues and grays which I have already cut into squares.  

I decided to try a couple of practice blocks and reached into my scraps box for the larger cuts.  There was not a lot of choice regarding color so I went with what I had, even piecing some of the scraps to make a big enough square.  My two practice blocks are  the ones on the right in the medallion below.

I thought they were so cute that I made the two on the left from stash.  As you can see I am in the process of putting on scrappy borders.  The HSTs are leftovers from another quilt.

I will call this finished when I complete the outer border which you can see at top right.

There was never a plan to make a girly baby quilt.  See what can happen when you are having fun?!

These are my practice blocks and real blocks in some of the colors I will be using.  

They are not yet arranged or sewn together.

As you can see I decided to go with the "Winter" design.