Maine Anniversary Quilt

I said I would write a blurb for this blog every month and I'm sneaking this in on the last night of March. This quilt was a lot of fun because I used huge pieces of cloth to make an image portraying Maine as I remember it and as I saw it viewing Google Images. I used a contrasting thread for the quilting and the greenish gold really shows up nicely on the pine trees. I appliqued the leaves as I quilted and I am pleased with their randomness.

Now I've moved on to a commission based on the seven continents and I am glad to report that I'm still having fun...

Two Season Lake Champlain Quilts

When I saw the hand dyed sky blue fabric, I knew exactly what scenes I wanted under it. Half a yard later - two scenes of Lake Champlain from my childhood home. I've been sailing many times in my father's yellow sailboat. I've only been ice fishing a couple of times, and never in a pick-up. But lots of people do drive their vehicles out on the lake, pull their ice houses into place and set up camp for weekends of fishing. A really fresh fish jumps in the pan and Lake Champlain perch are sweet and flaky. I am reserving the other half a yard for a scene near where I live now, that is unless I can't resist another lake scene. It's funny, I never think of moving back to the islands, but when I am quilting, sometimes it feels as if I never left.

My studio is unpacked, my machine is loaded and I am ready to go. To where? I don't know, but there will be a lot of quilts made in the process.