Signature quilt

Now that it's gone out to its new owner, I can post pictures of the final version of the signature quilt:



This is a miniature quilt that a set of moms we play with made for one of our number who's expecting her second baby in June. I pieced the top out of thirties prints, based on a much more sedate-looking pattern in Prairie Children and Their Quilts, and the six of us signed the larger white rectangles with well-wishes for R. and her family.

The top was tied by my friend Dianne and then outline quilted by me. We did the binding together.

Simple quilt, but this was a tough one, design-wise. The original quilt uses patterns for everything except the white triangles where you sign, but when I tried to recreate this using bright, thirties fabrics, the result was somewhere between nauseating and seizure-inducing. So I had to start swapping out prints for solids, or for less busy prints, and then try to get some balance between all of the colors, scattering reds and blues and greens and yellows somewhat evenly throughout. In the end it worked, but it taught me some lessons about not assuming that translating a set of period fabrics into another period will be straightforward.