Hitting the Blocks

Although I usually prefer to design my own quilts, I still browse through the numerous quilt books out there for new ideas.  Several months ago (like about 6 or 7), I was captivated by Ricky Tims’ Convergence designs. 

I thought, “Cool! This’ll be a nice, easy project.”

Famous last words.

Actually, I did get the quilt itself done fairly quickly.  It’s nice and small (29″ x 29″) I had the fabric already in my stash, begging to be used. A week, perhaps, is all it took (which is pretty good with a four-year old under foot).  Getting the back/binding on and the appliquing and quilting done…that took a while.  Granted, I was interrupted by two other quilts (only one of which is finished), a craft show, my quilt patterns up for sale, Christmas, Punkin’s birthday, repainting my living room…

Okay, okay.  Enough excuses. 

Here’s the finished project, called “Hope Rising,” after a David Crowder Band song I’ve gotten addicted to recently. It seemed an appropriate name, with the butterfly motif (and with all the stuff going on around here).

Here’s a close up of the appliqued butterflies. I wanted them to look like they were flying out of the fabric, in an Escher-esque fashion, so I did little to set them apart from the rest of the design.

Here’s a shot of the back, showing the very simple quilting pattern I used. The radiating lines accentuate the butterfly explosion on the front.

This is the first quilt I’ve kept for myself. Or rather, for my family–it’s now up in my daughter’s bedroom. She has a matching blanket made long ago from the blue-green batik, and she kept admiring the pretty butterflies.

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