Dancing Laundry on the Clothesline

This was so much fun, a novelty fabric donated to my Quilter's Guild by Nick & Nora, Crazy, laundry dancing on a clothes line.

I was provided a packet of most of these fabrics & added a few of my own.

The purple print is a Liberty of London fabric, with its lush, marvelous hand & a great variety of purples.



The odd shot of mens' underwear; at first I was a bit embarrassed to feature this in a quilt.

But it also offered such an unusual color palette that I became intrigued.  

The pink & purple (lilac) & yellow, w/shots of white & beige.

  

Then too I had the beautiful lilac/purples print from Liberty, juxtaposed w/ the chalk stripe, a nice, textilian interplay of bold  & brash along side banker-style conservative gave me a chuckle.

More of  the playful colorings:  dancing lilac  trousers ... striped polo shirts are good too!  It brought out a whimsy in me in combining the fabrics & improvising the layout.   

Look, even a pair of birds sitting on the clotheslines taking in the scene, sweet. 

A fitting backing fabric completes the picture.

I believe this quilt  made for charity was given to a shelter for battered women.  Hope it makes someone there smile as it did me.

Baby Quilt for Steven O.

and his Two Fathers

Have been working on organizing my fabric collection (known among Quilters as one’s fabric stash) among other things.  Early this Summer I recall seeing a cute fabric in that stash of little rocketships in Blue on a White ground.  I recall thinking a little boy would love this fabric.  Well a bit later I learned that an old friend had changed his mind about having kids and somewhat later in life has decided to become a Father.  So I made a baby quilt for his new son.  What a happy thing to hear about.  He has no idea, when he sent me a picture of his baby boy and I looked into that little face, the idea of this baby quilt was born.  Turned out so well, I am delighted with it.  

Here's where I started out.

A pattern known among quilters as a Disappearing 9 Patch (D9P).

A sweet print for the back, referring to Buffalo, where the Father and I met and went to College together.  

Snowmen commemorating both Buffalo and Snow Belt, and hopefully soon to be delighting a toddler.

Am pretty pleased with the result, calming, soothing, the reverse charming and cute.

Some pictures when complete; indoors.

More pictures, but from outdoors, different, natural lighting. 

On a park bench near my home. 

My label (from the Quilt Alliance) with small dedication to their son Steven, maybe he grow Happy and Healthy.

I hope to Fedex it to them soon as a total surprise.

Some additional pictures.

Am happy to say the recipients were delightfully surprised, it was as well received as I’d hoped!