quilt!

Soooo... rockin' Kate Franco puts all her quilt stuff up on her blog. Why don't I do that? Clearly, because I'm nowhere near as awesome as she is. But I finished a quilt top last night and I was so excited about it that I took pictures, so you get to see it!

The inspiration is kind of a long story. I have been really into solid fabrics recently - I used to think they were boring but now I'm all over them. Plus they're wayyyy cheaper, so that helps. I have been just going to the fabric store, heading straight for the solids section, and pulling out one or two I love and just rolling with it. You may recall my earlier post about the one I'm hand quilting (I did post that, right?). It kind of rolled into the idea of making quilts about places once I saw Thomas' pictures from Cinque Terre and knew I had to make one about those colors. I bought the fabric to make a quilt inspired by this town and I'm SUPER excited about it:




The one I made was inspired by weddings actually. Two (three?) of my cousins and my dearest, longest friend are all getting married this summer. I'm a bridesmaid for my friend's wedding and we were all looking at dresses and flowers and decor for months, and she was asking what we'd do if we were getting married. So I started wondering about it... I've never thought about it and a couple of years ago I even made fun of girls who had their entire weddings planned out before they even found a fella, but now I kind of understand. After looking through all the wedding magazines and websites, I have an idea of the kind of things I'd love to have if I was getting married in the very near future which is not going to happen. But if I was getting married next year, I'd have chocolate brown and berry with cream and green accents, letterpress invitations with a berry-colored peony design in the background and chocolate lettering, flowers would be peonies and star jasmine, and my one bridesmaid (Monica, of course) would be wearing a chocolate brown dress. Now I've loved this berry color for a while now, it looks really good on me and it's just sort of warm and comforting, and goes with lots of other stuff. So no surprise when I was at the fabric store and it hopped off the shelf and into my hands - along with a chocolate brown and cream, and a green for accent. like you do. I wanted something with minimal effort so I planned 24" blocks with minimal piecing to show off the colors as much as possible. I ended up with a lot more of the coral pink than I expected, but it definitely works. Also I noticed last night as my cat the quilt whore was gleefully rolling around and depositing cat hair all over my masterpiece that she is the same colors as my quilt too (save for the berry color). She's a brown tabby with white belly and paws, green eyes, and a pink nose. awww.



Also, Karol and Asuka and I went to IKEA the other day. Clearly we did not have fun.