Sweet Dreams

 The bright batik colors of this quilt on the Connecting Threads website caught my eye during a quilt browsing session. Designed by Daniela Stout for Cozy Quilt Designs, it has beautiful pinks, fuchsia, orange, and purple. I ordered it while in Florida (winter 2019) and put it aside. I decided to bring it with me to Florida 2020, so I did the cutting ahead of time. 

I don't recall if I worked on it in Florida because...Covid.

I finished the top on May 23, 2020

Audiobook for this quilt:

The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Romancing the Blues

 You know how when you see a quilt you like and think, hey, I have two drawers plus spillover of blue fabrics! I can do this! Designed by Monique Dillard of Open Gate Quilts, this lovely blue item was featured in the 2014 issue of the American Patchwork & Quilting Calendar. I put aside some beautiful fabrics and let them percolate until I was ready to make it. Well, turns out I didn't have ENOUGH of the main fabric put aside and had to think quickly. This project was going with me to Florida! So back to my drawers to find something that would work. I found “Jasmine” by Quilter's Only for Spring Industries, and “Beautiful Borders and Backgrounds” by Maywood Studios, fabrics I had been hoarding for years for just the right quilt. I began this project just before I flew to Florida in February 2020 and finished it after I had to come home early because...Covid.

I made this quilt entirely from my own stash. And isn't that the point?

Audiobook for this quilt:
The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Friendship Stars

I fell in love with this simple pattern arranged on point in red, black, and gold fabrics, with a large black and cream gingham border. It was featured in the annual American Patchwork & Quilting Calendar; the year and the designer is lost to time. I made this for my kitchen as a wall hanging but it lives as a table cover on an old sewing machine cabinet in a corner of the kitchen that my husband uses as a sort of office/library/telephone stand. It is pretty faded after all these years but fits right in to my 1897 house aura.

During the following years I made a blue and yellow version for my friend's blue kitchen. A few years after that she changed her color palette to gray.

Last spring I hauled out another version that I had started a while ago. I had hoped to make this one for another friend. Her family owned a coffee business for many years, and I had collected a number of coffee fabrics to use for her table topper/wall hanging. Unfortunately, I waited too long and she died before I could make it. So I made it in her memory.

For BM 2020