I am Lily - stay at home muma to Abigail and wife to Julian. I make time each day to let my imagination potter and add quirky prettiness and handmade comfort to our home and lives. You can email me at lily(at)blockaday(dot)com
the back garden quilt
There’s a new quilt here.
The brown fabric has been beckoning for some time and I wanted to create something that was resolutely cheerful and vibrant, full of energy and sparkle.
Actually, I was greatly inspired by some antique Amish quilts - hence the design - which obviously are never to be found in fabrics of such patterns, but they are often in amazingly rich colour combinations that just take your breath away.
I was thinking this quilt would be for the spare ‘oom, when we get one. But once I laid it on the grass to show Abby and Mum, it sang out to me that its true calling is as a lovely quilt to cart into the back garden with some pillows, a novel or some stitching, some cookies or fruit, and soak away the afternoon in the wonderful winter sun.
Abby suggested she try it out and look at that.! Perfect!
Until the living, breathing critters arrived … :-)
5 July, 2009 at 10:40 am
I fear I keep repeating myself here - but that’s a great quilt! You truly have a knack with colour and putting the right fabrics together to make a thing of beauty. And that’s a perfect garden quilt, if ever I’ve seen one!
5 July, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Mission accomplished! The garden quilt is full of energy and sparkle and certainly appears to meet the needs of all of the garden quilt testers! Bravo once again!!!
5 July, 2009 at 1:38 pm
So bright and pretty! It will brighten up any dull winter day.
5 July, 2009 at 9:09 pm
oh. wow. it’s beautiful !! well done !!!
5 July, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Hehe! So cute with a pile of puppies and child :) You don’t need me to tell you that you’ve done a wonderful job again, do you? Well, you have!
6 July, 2009 at 1:37 am
Silly Lily…. every quilt you make is a perfect doggie quilt.
6 July, 2009 at 3:56 am
Love the colors!!! Very bold– Just beautiful. I also love the sequence of pictures, what a great story!
6 July, 2009 at 5:15 am
That’s a good use for your quilt, I agree with Abby. I didn’t realize Amish had their own traditional quilting patterns!
6 July, 2009 at 11:01 am
Great combinations! I wish I had your eye for color.