Home Away from Home

Once again a little log cabin block - just a quarter of one, in fact - has led me to a place I could not have foreseen, yet am definitely glad to have arrived at. Begun at QuiltCon in an Improv Theme and Variation class with Denyse Schmidt, I arrived home with my blocks from class still arranged on my portable design wall, rolled up in my suitcase. It took just a little puzzling together to make them into a quilt top.

Right away, I knew that matchstick quilting was the way I wanted to go. And though starting out I intended to use several colored threads, I ended up using just one, Aurifil 50wt #2435 (Peachy Pink). In my mind, it's Pink Flamingo, and it provided a nicely subtle contrast in nearly all of the fabrics I'd used.

Speaking of fabrics, did you think I'd only used solids? Mostly, yes, but there was a single print inserted three or four times.... one from Carolyn Friedlander's Doe, and I love the extra bit of interest it adds.

For the backing, I pieced a variety of orange and coral stash prints together, and it was all finished with a faced binding, measuring 34" x 30".

So here ends an agreeable little meander that began with the simplest of blocks, was enhanced by an encounter with someone I admire alot, all the while buoyed up by the Instagram contingent. These are just the type of projects and processes that empower me the most, and every time, I'm grateful that they've happened.

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