It's a finish!
Wild Roses
76 x 93
Hand quilted with perle cotton
This quilt began with the backing...a big print of roses. I had it in my stash for quite a long time but could not bear to cut it up. And there was several yards of it which is unusual around here. So I decided it would make a nice backing and decided I needed to make a front to go with it.
I made the Uneven Nine Patches out of a variety of rose themed fabrics. I happened to have an orange print with roses to use for the alternate blocks but figured out I didn't have enough of it. I did find another orange/pink print with some other flowers on it I could also use. Actually I was kind of surprised I had so many orange prints because I thought that was not a color I really cared for. The fabrics must have been deeply discounted enough to find their way into my stash I guess. (Straying way off subject here but I think I got enough of the color orange and all it's shades and variations back in the '70s when we purchased out first house and painted most of the walls yellow or peach or apricot or light orange.) Anyway...I had to do a bit of thinking in order to figure out how to use fabrics to their best advantage. I finished the top on December 26, 2019.
I quilted it with perle cotton #8 and #12 and used a variety of different colors in shades of a beautiful sunset - pinks, reds, yellows, rusts. At first I thought it would be enough to just stitch straight vertical lines.
But when I finished all of the straight vertical lines I didn't think that was enough quilting so I stitched a lot of horizontal lines. I did use a ruler and hera marker to mark my quilting lines.
I used a pale yellow rose print for the binding.
And that brings me back around to the beginning of the story.
There was not quite enough of that backing print to completely cover the back. But I did have an even bigger rose print I added to the end. I had just 1/2 yard of it and it and that was just enough so it was meant to be I suppose.
