Sunshine

Officially done; all photographed, too.  Huzzah!  Between the weather, the time of year (my favorite photo spot is shaded) and the size of the quilt, I could not photograph it at home.  I brought it to the library to take pictures.  Looks like the library may be a nice outdoor setting, too.  I need to remember that for future shoots.

Goff hall (where we contra dance) has huge windows and lots of sunlight.  I wasn't able to get good clean sun and shadows because of the window panes, but I'm happy enough with my photos.

I named the quilt Sunshine, because of how the back looked.  The back!  What a way to name a quilt.  But the name fits.  The swirls on 30 of the suns/flowers go in one direction... and the 31st does not.  I knew about it early on - the odd one was the first or second sun I quilted.  But it looked great, so I left it in.  I know roughly where it is and it still takes me a while to find it.  No one else will ever notice.

I love the back as much as the front.  On this side the border makes me think of cathedral windows; It looks so different on each side.

I used the backing fabric for the label and tucked it in a corner, sewing it down with the same colored thread.  This way, if Mom wants to throw it on the bed back-side up, the label won't stand out.

I ended up keeping the name Blood, Sweat and Swearing as well.  I scrubbed off two spots of blood from white pieces (ack!) after several run-ins with pins.  Wrestling it through my machine to quilt it was certainly warm work.  And there was more than a few bad words (especially while washing out the blood), as you've discovered in a prior post.  Additionally, the name makes me laugh; which is good, because I'm really happy with this quilt.

I liked the fabrics Mom picked out, but never  guessed the browns and blues would look so terrific together.  Sunshine looks great in so many places.  I loved it against the the wood in the library.  (The librarians oohed and ahhed over it, too.)












The quilt looked so pretty on the snow, too - lots of blues and whites.  I wish I had a chance to get properly set up before it tried to blow away.  The wind has died down, but not until after all that snow has disappeared - over a foot of snow gone in 24 hours.  We're now back to freezing temps.  Crazy!

Now that I have photographs to keep, I'm ready to hand it over to my mother.  I'm a little surprised she's not camping out on my doorstep this very moment.

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