I'm not sure that a picnic on a quilt spread on the ground makes as much sense around here, where the ground is covered with rocks and sand, pinon trees, cactus, chamisa and yucca, instead of soft green grass makes any sense, or why I started thinking of this checkerboard quilt as a picnic quilt, but with this Lovely Finish, I'm ready for a picnic.
The quilt is 66 inches square, made of twenty-five 12-inch 16-patch blocks, with a 3 inch triangle square border and a narrow binding.
The quilting design was quite simple: diagonal lines through the colored squares; flowers with echo quilting in the cream squares; and pointy leaves and echo quilting in the cream triangles in the border. I liked the look of alternately densely quilted/lightly quilted areas and after a wash, it's another soft, crinkly scrap quilt.
Despite the landscape, I intended to spread out the quilt under the pinon tree in my back "yard" ... but the high winds today just wouldn't cooperate.
It probably would have been a funny looking picnic on the sand and rocks, anyway ...
Congratulations on the finish. It's lovely.
ReplyDeleteSimple and fabulous. Love the border. Enjoy the picnic when it happens.
ReplyDeletewhat a beautiful quilt...i love the border too! :)
ReplyDeleteA lovely finish! As a person who feels pretty quilts are meant to be used and enjoyed, I say picnic on! ... :) Pat
ReplyDeleteThe saw tooth border is perfect, it adds a lot to the quilt! Very pretty!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty, I love the quilting. I keep thinking about making one of these, but I'm sure I'd be too worried about getting it dirty to use it!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the finish.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Cloud CouCou... After all that beautiful work there's no way I'd let anyone near it with food ;-)
ReplyDeleteHow cool to have an "official" picnic blanket! You did a wonderful job.
ReplyDeleteSome great photography of your quilt! Artistic, like the quilt.
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