I have a quilt in a magazine!  It feels… weird.  I made the quilt and shipped it off so fast that when the magazine came, I could barely even remember that that was my quilt.  But then the next day the quilt came back in the mail, and we’ve had it hanging around now for a couple of days, so I’m starting to feel like maybe I did make that.

I like that rainbow journal cover on the other page, too. Pretty little calicoes.

Of course, I had to have a photo shoot with my own little model…

It’s hand quilted with perle cotton,using a traditional Japanese cloud/water motif for the background.  I drew the motif by hand rather than using a stencil to give it a more natural look, and hopefully make all that open space a little more interesting.  I want to do more of the hand-drawing thing, it makes the quilt so personal.

I am dying to make this again, using Anna Maria Horner’s Innocent Crush and Little Folks Voiles.  Can a quilt be fresh and moody at the same time?  I think you could pull it off,  with the stormy purples of IC mixed with the perky pinks of LF.

I would also love to see the pattern done up in some of the re-issued Flea Market Fancy.  Those kinds of retro florals are actually just what I had in mind when I was drafting  up this quilt!  With a dove grey background it would be just the right combination of retro + modern.  I must get myself a staff to start knocking these things out!