A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
~E.B. White
Quilting
I'm sorry I've been offline. We've had many issues; as fast as one is finished, another pops up. Family, medical, house, yard. Consequently I haven't quilted since the first week of January.
While cleaning the sewing room last week I pulled all my black prints. They are difficult for me to work with; I can't see anything on that dark fabric. So... use or donate? With that phrase ringing in my ears, of course I chose to use them.
Sujata gave me her Sunburst quilt pattern when she visited last year. This is the perfect time to make it since most of the "thinking" is already done. I simply have to follow her directions.
Warm and bright colors lighten the blacks and make it look like fireworks. I changed some of Sujata's directions. Putting black in the inner circle confused the design. I pulled those, instead using the two colors that aren't in the outer circle. All the centers are black squares.
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| Fireworks Quilt |
The batting is leftover from the jacket I made my youngest. He insisted he wants the Fireworks quilt. And his birthday is this month. Done and dusted.
Quilt Specifics
Size: 46" x 46"
Design: Sunburst by Sujata Shah
Batting: Warm and Natural
Thread: YLI black cotton
Quilting: Spiral with a walking foot
Approximate yardage: 6 yds approx.
Reading
Genetric anthropologist Dr. Jennifer Raff wrote this interesting book sharing the current research on First Americans. She shared new techniques as well as Native histories to show that the initial peopling of the Americas occurred much earlier than previously thought.
