Heart-Speak

The mini quilt top I began piecing at QuiltCon with the Gee's Bend quilters was so very nearly done, that it didn't take long at all to bring it to fruition.

Small as it is - 14"x16" - there's a few things I really like about it. For one, the mix of fabrics - 1 of hubby's shirts (don't worry, I asked first!), some linen-blend and chambray, and then some modern scraps that certainly aren't representative of that used in an original Gee's Bend quilt. That little incompatibility gives me a sort of satisfaction somehow.

I like that little gold triangle - enough that making it the focus of my quilting design was an obvious choice. And I really really like what the quilting did for that blue shirt fabric. It gives a movement I really didn't anticipate, but love.

Remember in my QuiltCon Abbreviated post, when I mentioned the lack of direction in our class? Well from the wonky center square to that scrappy binding, I found that indeed, my heart directed each step, just like the quilters told me it would. Fancy that.

Linking up with Scraptastic Tuesday and Fabric Tuesday. On Wednesday.