Dessert First

Sometime you gotta do what you gotta do, and in this case it was starting a new project with the trimmings from a project I hadn't finished yet. Got that?

Up on the design wall had been my Color Play 'blocks' from the class I took from Tara Faughnan at QuiltCon. They've been waiting patiently for me to finish a few other things, but for some reason when I had a few hours free last weekend, it was the scraps of that project that called to me. And I listened.



With the vague notion of creating a log cabin variation with the 'scraps' paired with some stashed purple, before long I had a design that intrigued me.



For quilting, I perused Jacquie Gering's Walk book, as one does, and decided a Diamond Spiral would suit my creation, so I started in. For thread I'd chosen Aurifil 50wt 2520 (Violet) AGAIN, which was a perfect match in some areas, and a perfectly nice contrast in others.



The quilt ended up at 25" x 26", and again, this kind of impromptu creating was just so satisfying. It didn't hurt that much of the multicolored sections were done for me, but I'll take it.

Fern Royce deserves a little shout-out for calling what I did here for what it was and prompting the quilt's name, Dessert First. Fun times.