You & Me Quilt

Yesterday morning I made an extra, extra long roll of binding in Denyse Schmidt's Complex Plaid in Maple and finished off another new quilt, with enough binding left for at least one more!



Of course I turned to that trick using the extension table that came with my Janome to neatly feed me my binding, I love that!!



All that red plaid against the navy parts of my quilt, along with the bright yellow Aurifil quilting, looks especially nice to me! I was a little nervous about the bright yellow at first, but I'm so glad I went for it!





We took a quick drive to the fields for this photo shoot, where lots of sunflowers, black eyed Susans, Queen Anne's Lace, Goldenrod and Vervain are in full flourish. It was so, SO beautiful!









This photo of the back of my quilt, with all that warm flannel, is one of my very favorites!





I had originally ordered the entire Shelburne Falls collection by Denyse Schmidt with a picnic quilt in mind. Once it arrived, I immediately sketched out my idea with no particular meaning behind my plan other than wanting to come up with a pattern that would showcase the three different palettes in this collection nicely. I did struggle there for a little while, but once things clicked this quilt became something very special to me, very quickly. While I worked away the plaid and various floral prints returned me to a very special memory of mine. Just a little more than twelve years ago, almost to this day, when I was just twenty years old, Kevin walked from his Mom's house on Main Street where he was staying, to my parents house out of town to see me, picking a few of each of the different wild flowers he found along his way. Wild flowers are my very favorite! That day he came to the door holding a bouquet for me, wearing a red and navy plaid shirt that he wore almost everyday back then, along with his sweet smile and adorable dimples, of course. That image of him is a permanent fixture in my mind and one I will always treasure. Like a beautiful song that seems written just for you, the mix of vintage-y florals with the stripes and plaid, along the colors and charm of this collection brought me back to those sentimental days. And so this quilt quickly became OURS. A special memory embraced in pieced together fabrics and lots of quilting stitches. An assemblage of wobbly pieces beautifully blended together to make OUR quilt, perfect. So, I'm calling this my You & Me Quilt and we both already love it so much!









Wishing you a nice start to your week!   ♥ Maureen