Foothills Quilt Along Part 3

Winter Wonderland

A Frosty Fairyland

Magical

These are the views out my windows this week, as I curl up inside with hands wrapped around a hot cup of tea and wearing a scarf draped around my shoulders and neck inside the house. Although my photo captions seem dreamy and romantic, deep down inside I’m praying for winter to end. They do say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, as long as it blows itself outta here before my next trip to Alberta then I’m satisfied to stare out the window at a winter wonderland for now. Besides, this weather certainly gives me another excuse for bunkering in and getting loads of sewing done (not that I ever need any excuses).

Ta Da!

All this snow makes for a very tricky photo shoot! but I really wanted to share my first finish of the Foothills Quilt Along so I weathered the storm and traipsed through the drifts in order to get a couple of halfway decent shots of my latest flimsy.

I’m not sure if I should call this my first version, since I started it first but then abandoned it to begin again, but I can’t really call it my original version because the other blocks are truer to the original antique quilt. Anyway I look at it, I can at least call it a finished quilt top. And I love it!

My Sweet Prairie Quilt

I threw everything into this quilt, including 1930’s reproductions, thrift store shirts, Cotton and Steel prints, authentic feedsacks, Jen Kingwell’s fabrics, and loads of scraps. As long as it had a weird ‘vintagey’ look to it it was fair game. I wanted a certain mood of softness and prairie farmhouse to contrast dramatically with the original version of the quilt in the museum’s collection, and I wanted to evoke my own personality with this quilt. I completed the look with a light coloured, wide sashing and no borders, in keeping with the original but something I don’t normally do with my quilts. I can’t wait to see this one quilted.

until next time,

carol xox