Happy 2013! Our New Year started with Max flushing his toothbrush and clogging the toilet (which of course required the toilet to be removed – an unpleasant task, to be sure!), and then I got hit with some awful illness that had me confined to the couch for a week. I will assume that better things are ahead… like this quilt top becoming a real quilt!
I put most of these blocks together at the very end of December, and then got the top sewn together on New Years Day, so I suppose that qualifies it as the first top of 2013. I was really happy to finally get a chance to sew up these blocks – I pulled together most of this stack many months ago.
Along the way I’ve collected many special handprinted fabrics from a variety of wonderful artists, and it was fun to be able to combine all those favorites in this one quilt top. Most recently I received a few great prints from Julie at Cloth Fabric in Australia. I’m particularly fond of her disc print (shown above in the center), so I based my fabric pull off of this print. Along with several of Julie’s fabrics, you’ll find some Skinny LaMinx, Ink & Spindle, Kalla Design, a few little pieces of Umbrella Prints, and a little Repeat Studios along with some coordinating quilting weight prints and solids.
I wanted to use larger pieces of these gorgeous handprinted fabrics, so I opted for some large (15″) improv blocks. I really love the way the blocks look, and I love them even more all sewn together into this quilt top! I’m hoping to get a backing put together this week so this one doesn’t languish in the ‘quilt top closet’!
(As usual, Max still loves himself a quilt photoshoot!)
a trip around the world, in scraps!
Glimma waterfall (+giveaway!)
I really love the idea of the big prints! Thank you so much for all the inspiration you give to quilters all around the world!
Toilet Lock. Once you have a flusher, it’s a hard habit to break. Mostly, because most toys can be flushed without your knowledge and don’t create a back up until it just backs up. A good addition to your home would be a drain snake, too.
Lovely top. Max is adorable as always.
Gorgeous again! The Australian fabrics are delicious too. The little charmer…..
What beautiful fabrics, love it!
Max is a cutie. I’d love it if you would talk about handprinted fabrics some. I’m always afraid they will bleed later on. How do you know if they’re “safe”?
Wow! This is so different looking, even though the pattern is traditional. Love the fabrics.
This quilt top is awesome. Wonderful bold prints and I love them all. Looking forward to see the top quilted.
That is one gorgeous quilt top!!! What are you going to do for the backing! Your little photo bomber is pretty cute too.
The quilt top is bright and beautiful! And Max is the perfect color match!!
I love everything you do !! I am your copy cat, “not without your permission” or recognition either… Could this be a square in a square, I am doing this other hop and this is the block it ask for I dont know what it is and confused !! I cant believe all that snow, you know I am in TX and would freak with that white stuff..
I cannot believe how big he is! Im glad your feeling well quilt is gorgeous!
I love that quilt. Its so much fun, bright, but not juvenille KWIM? Fantastic!
L.O.V.E. your quilt but that Max- he steals the show!!:)
Always love your quilt tops, the colour combinations always bring a light to my day! Loving Max with the cheeky grim and the yellow striped ‘beanie’.
Love this quilt! I would have never put those colors together – but they work beautifully! Thanks for helping me see things out of the “box”! Your Max is sure cute – I have a Max too! My Max is 17 and way into cars, gutiars, and girls! I am starting a quilt for him which is appliqued gutiars, within gutiars, its for his graduation in 2014. I miss those early years of toothbrush flushing…it all goes by too fast!
WOW. This is a truly gorgeous quilt. Very well done. Love the animals and the colors.
I absolutely adore this design! Would love to see it in your shop!