I don't know if you remember this top from July 2022. I spent a long time considering whether my applique skills were up to translating the teasel in my photograph into fabric, but in the end didn't think I would be able to produce something I was happy with. However, along the way the idea of weeds inveigled itself into my brain and wouldn't go away. In the end, I gave in and printed the names of lots of the weeds I have in my garden onto the quilt top. Here's a view of what that looked like.
and here's a view of the finished quilt in its entirety.
In a departure from my habitual, straightforward quilting I had a bit of a play and tried a different version of something floral in every strip set. In one or two I just followed what was already on the fabric, in others I added stylised leaves or flowers. It was a lot of fun but has been surprisingly difficult to photograph. This is the best shot I have managed.
It has ended up a biggish quilt - around 75" x 65" and is pleasingly weighty (that's the denim and old trousers).
I started this on April 9th and finished piecing on July 15th 2022. I've been quilting it for a while, can't really remember when I started. Nonetheless it is finished within 2 years (just) of completing the top, which is pretty quick for me. I bound it using fabric from stash, quilted in perle no 8, mostly odds and ends, also from stash. The wadding is organic cotton.
My favourite things about this are the green that came from my best-ever trousers (that's the strip with Chickweed printed on it in the photo) and the inclusion of the Monaluna print which I used to make the dress my then-4-year old daughter wore to my wedding (and she's nearly 14 now, so that tells you how long those scraps have been sitting in a box). Also, the colours of this please me inordinately - greens, blues and browns just float my boat.
In other news, I am pushing on with my blue hexagons but more of that in my next post (which may even happen before the end of the summer!)
