Turkey Tracks: April 2015
“Foxy Blue” Quilt
It’s official. “Foxy Blue” was delivered, by SIL Maryann Enright, last Sunday.
This BIG quilt (97 inches square) does not photograph well in its entirety. It’s much more subtle than the light/dark the camera is picking up.
The focus fabric is a Foxglove pattern–thus the name.
I wanted to make a low-impact quilt, Kaffe Fasset style, and to use my blue 2 1/2-inch squares. (I have a whole BIG box of these squares left.)

I chose a batik backing that works really well. It sort of glows. And a sort of seafoam binding. You can also see that I mixed hourglass/broken dishes blocks into the borders, which gave, I think, a lot of visual interest.

Here’s a good shot of the focus fabric.

And one of the movement in the quilt.

The corners. I used a pantograph called Hyancith Grande that I’ve had for some time. It’s by Patricia Ritter. And I used a low-contrast thread. The quilting came out really well.

Another view:

And another:

The middle is comprised of the stash squares, with no attempt made to order them in any way in terms of light and dark.

It’s a beautiful quilt…
Love, too, the bits of purple foxglove that punctuate the quilt.