Friday, October 29, 2010

Fall Decorating with Quilts


I was just sitting here using my laptop  this morning when I thought," Boy, I have a few fall quilts. Why not take some pictures to put on my blog." The first one is a Thimbleberries pattern. 
I think I made it 2 years ago.


The center of this quilt in my kitchen is from the book Baltimore Country Cousins by Susan McKelvey.  Susan is in one of my guilds. There is a picture of a quilt I made (not this one) in that book. I think I made this top about 2007 and quilted it in 2009.


Fall is my favorite time of year and typically I have always loved fall colors. 
Although, now I am liking brighter stuff.


I made this quilt on the table last year. It is made with a cake stand I purchased at a local quilt show in the summer of 2009. I was fortunate to find fabric in the same line on the Internet. The great part was that it was on sale since it was the previous year's fabric. I put the entire top together on one Friday night. I knew when I was making it that it needed something between the center and the orange border but I did not have other fabric with me and I wanted to finish that night.


I was not happy with it so I added the rick-rack. I sewed the rick-rack down as I was quilting. That was just what it needed and I love it. Who doesn't live rick-rack?


The other thing I did not like at first were the solids in the cake stand. But, once again, now I love them because the quilting really shows in them.


I always have a quilt hanging beside the fireplace to snuggle under if someone gets a bit chilly. This is one of the first quilts I quilted on the longarm. It was done in 2004.


2 comments:

jenclair said...

Beautiful! All of them!

Dora, the Quilter said...

I love all your beautiful autumn quilt projects. They're beautiful. (And normally, I prefer fall colors outdoors.) Very nice!