Last night was the monthly Charleston Modern Quilt Guild meeting. It was a lively event that produced a room full of visiting, laughter, and frequent clapping celebrating various projects being shown.
Jean Craig, president of the Charleston Modern Quilt Guild, and her husband recently hiked a mountain trail whose length is 76 miles.
Here’s a quote from Wikipedia: “The Foothills Trail is a 76-mile (122 km) National Recreation Trail in South and North Carolina, United States, for recreational hiking and backpacking. It extends from Table Rock State Park to Oconee State Park. It passes through the Andrew Pickens Ranger District of the Sumter National Forest, Ellicott Rock Wilderness, Whitewater Falls, and Lake Jocassee.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foothills_Trail
Jean is a quilter, so guess what she came home and made:
That’s Jean on the left, and Rick Sanchez of Rickrack Room (also an amazing quilter who has a longarm business) is helping Jean show her quilt. Near the bottom, Jean depicts the “foothill” mountains they walked.
Here’s the back:
I think she said that the quilt is a gift for her husband, who said this event was a “level 2” event. Jean explained that a level 1 event is clearly fun things like parties. A level 2 event is something that you know while doing it that you’ll like it all a lot more when you are done. I love that!
I spent part of yesterday afternoon ironing the backing pieces for the neutral “Pieces of My Heart” quilt top AND matching up the print. I’ve had this cute fabric in my stash for a long time (thank you Betsy Maislen for showing me this fabric).
I bet you have to look hard to see where I matched the print:
And today is another day to fill with fun Level 1 events! One of such events will be putting this backing and its top and batting on the longarm.
**Here’s a link to the method I use to match backing prints:
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