Quilt

The front

We are flying to Florida this Easter to visit my mom and have a family holiday.  I've been working like a demon to finish this quilt for my college roommate who had a  baby girl 6 months ago.

Another pic.  Those are my cherry trees in the back.  I highly recommend fan trained cherries.  They are easy to grow, take up no space and produce pounds of high quality cherries that the kids and I adore.  So do the birds.

My quilting is a little old fashioned, in that it is far from perfect and has to be made from materials on hand.  Some of you may remember this white cotton lawn with red and blue flowers from a burda dress I made two summers ago (it's lost on the old blog, boohoo.)  In fact, seven fabrics in this quilt are dressmaking or bag scraps.  Obviously, I have jazzed it up with plenty of quilting scraps to break up the size of the print and to add more dark colours.

Note on the back

Some people do faux-naive craftwork.  Not me, I really am untrained, and unskilled!  Check out my idea of freehand embroidery!  Luckily, all my friends and family accept these gifts in the spirit in which they are given.  At least, nothing is so precious and fine that it can't be used:-)