Nashville Stitch N Bitch

don't read me mom part III

If you are my mother, then scram! (and I mean that in the most affectionate way possible) Christmas content enclosed!

eclipse! Fin!

So here's what happened. In an giant last minute executive decision, I decided to give mom this, and let my poor Mother In Law, who is not really of a craft mindset, have what she would rather have - a gift certificate to a spa in Aspen. It's more her thing anyway. Mom made a big to-do over this quilt, so I thought it might be fun to give it to her. Plus, I love it.

If you're new to my yammering about this quilt, I'm doing it as part of the modern quiltalong hosted by dioramarama based around the book the modern quilt workshop by the people at fun quilts. It's been really fun and a great learning experience.

It's all Hoffman batiks, and quilted with this purty cotton variegated thread that I got at a real! live! quilt store! here in town. I didn't even know we had one, and I ran into during a trip to a pumpkin festival back in the fall. It's old and unbelievably, I can't even explain it to you it was so much so, crowded with fabric upon fabric and thread and batting and... and... and.... the woman who owns it has great taste. It's so cool to go in and see a whole section of Kaffe. It had that knitting store vibe - people carrying around their projects, and asking each other's advice. And across the street from it, they had their own quilt gallery! Ah, bliss.

I'm generally not a batik person, (and I know the Fun Quilts people are probably squirming in their chairs at the idea of batiks in one of their quilts) and I bought these batiks to do another thing entirely, but I really ended up loving how they all came together.

But I digress. You can see the up close quilting of my little Eclipse here.

The Christmas handmade parade is winding to a close! Just a couple of more little things and I'm done. Whew.

xo

Posted by Angela at December 16, 2005 02:51 PM