“Spring’s Song” Quilt is Done

Good Monday morning to all. Here we go to another week.

We’ve gotten a good amount of rain in recent days, for which we are grateful as it has been a long drought this time. I hope this rain will help with our front ponds which are lower than I’ve ever seen them. Their fountains are turned off as a result.

***And I didn’t note in my recent post that ANTS farm Mealy bugs. Guess what is right next to my front plant that is the most infected? A big ant bed. I treated the original nest, which was nearby, but the surviving ants just moved to a new spot around the corner from the original nest.

Nature is fascinating.

“Spring’s Song” is the second quilt in this series of three quilts, using the same palette and the big and small Cat’s Cradle rulers. The third and final quilt is on the longarm now.

“Spring’s Song” is quilted with a “spring green” color cotton thread, and I really love how it looks on the quilt and on the backing. Cotton thread “stands up” on a quilt, and I like that look, especially with the beautiful Innova longarm’s stitch. The pantograph is Arcadia (Patricia E. Ritter). The quilt is 64 by 64 inches.

This backing of trees in spring helped me choose this quilt’s name. And it also plays off of the first quilt: “Fall’s Splendor.”

Below you can see how the big 8-inch blocks are working with the 4-inch blocks. Basically I just made some of the blocks in both sizes and played on the design wall with them until I saw this pattern start to emerge. Play is everything for me in quilting. That’s where the creativity happens.

Let’s have a great week folks!