Loud and Juicy Quilt

If anything has the right to have a word spread across its fanny, it's this quilt. ...er...except this is a quilt and doesn't have a fanny....so...um...nevermind.

Other words that come to mind when looking at this quilt are loud, obnoxious, fun, colorful, loud...oh, did I already say loud?

Truth is, I don't know how I feel about it. Mom bought this charm pack for me when she was down in Utah last year. I adore the charm pack. I think it's called Squeezable or something like that. I've played with the squares for months now not knowing what to do with them.

I noticed a few months ago that Pacific Fabrics in Northgate had some of the fabrics from the pack. On Monday I went over there and found only three fabrics left. I also found a baby blanket pattern and then needed to find some background for the windmills in the blanket. The only color I could find that was in the same family was yellow. I also needed to make the blanket bigger because I wanted it as a lap blanket. I haven't made anything for me since before Annalise was born, so I figured it was about time.

I cut the fabric and pinned the windmills on Monday. Yesterday I sewed the top quilt all together.

It doesn't bother me if you don't like it and you tell me so; it really won't hurt my feelings. It's a gut thing we all have and we differ from each other. I like the pattern, but I conclude that the quilt is loud. Too loud, really. I'm used to subtle colors in monochromatic schemes, or two or three colors, at most. Often I'll go with a predetermined collection of fabric. I'm not very gutsy.

This was a good practice for me in doing something different. I suppose there are people out there who will love this bright quilt. After all, some people paint their walls super bright colors. My eyes and brain need calming things, that's all. In my home you will find neutrals with a pop of color every once in a while. My favorite color is green. Then blue and red.

I'll definitely do this pattern again. It was very fun doing the windmills.

This isn't the finished product, obviously. It needs to be quilted (I'm not sure exactly how yet), one inch buttons need to go in the center of the windmills (orange, green, red?), and it needs binding. I made the bias tape binding last night (I have a bias tape maker and love it!!) in the stripe fabric. I wish I went last year when they had more of this collection. I'm not sure exactly what I would have done differently...maybe used more green to tone it down a notch...