As Promised

Here are the pics of Cori's Wrapped in Hope orange dancers quilt.  Still no real name for this.  Maybe it'll just be orange dancers.  How original. 

I gotta say, these pics were hard to get.  There's SO much orange here that it screws with the coloring of the whole rest of the shot.  I had to do a little post-production tweaking to get them anything close to the real look.

Doesn't that backing look like it was made to be part of this quilt??

Close up of some of the quilting.

"Love is louder"

And finally, the full frontal.  This will ship with the Superhero quilt in a week or so, in time for their respective birthdays in mid-March. 

And now, back to cleaning.  Yay.

Love is Louder

I'm not dead, I swear! Just trying to finish up this quilt before posting more pics of it. 

On Valentine's Day, a friend of mine introduced me to the Love is Louder movement on facebook, and I gotta say...I'm hooked!  It's hard to remember it some days, but love really is louder than anything negative the world can throw at us. 

To that end, I decided to incorporate the message in Cori's orange dancers quilt (which still doesn't have a good name yet) and quilted it (in my best handwriting!) in the bottom right corner.  It's subtle and you can barely read it, but if you look for it, it's there.  I could have done it brighter, bolder, louder, but I like that you have to really know to look for it to see it...it's like a secret message.  I did it using (what else) paper stencils.  I think I'm going to incorporate this on all my donation quilts.

Quick Pix

Just a few pix of the orange dancers quilt.  I found the backing on sale at Joann's this afternoon, and I have to say...I'm a little bit in love with it.  It's like it was designed to go with this top.  At the store, this old Irish lady commented on it and told me my top was wonderful...it meant the world.  :-)

Basted and bunched up.

Stencils.  Whirligigs are for the orange blocks.

Hearts are for the pink blocks.

Butterflies are for the dancers.

Dancing butterflies.

Hearts and butterflies.

Whirligigs.

Flipside.  See what I mean about the backing?  How gorgeous is this stuff??? And it's flannel to boot!

Now you can see where I got the butterflies idea from.

And last but not least, the hearts.  I'm doing the butterflies in white, hearts in pink (need more pink thread, argh), and whirligigs in orange.  I'm also stitching down the ditches, but I got impatient and wanted to try out these patterns. :-)  I had to use tweezers to get the paper off of some parts, but I'm not too worried about that...it'll be tedious, but a good "zone out in front of the TV" activity.