Due Yue Prefer Blue?

This is the quilt I'm not working on, sadly. Sometimes you really have a yearning for a particular thing? I'm yearning after this quilt, but alas, I have to work on something else. Not that the something else isn't a good thing too, but you know...


It's a Puss-in-the-Corner, with a navy Benartex flannel backing in a tone on tone print. Finished size is about 62"X62", a generous lap quilt or single bed-topper.



I've FINALLY come to a place where I'm happy with my meander quilting, and it's actually fun! I'm not swearing. The stitches are all more or less the same length. It looks like what they're doing at the quilt shop! They told me it was a matter of practice, and apparently they were right. Imagine that!

I'm using a variegated thread, but the colours are very subtle and you don't see the variation unless you're up close. And that's alright. The lady at the quilt shop (who teaches machine quilting) was trying like billy-o to get me to use a bright blue/green variegated thread for this project, but there was no way I was going to do it, considering how little confidence I had in my meander-quilting ability at the time. I'm still glad, even though it's going well. That would be too much stress, thinking that every stitch was going to proclaim itself.

The blues in this quilt aren't "my" colours, but now that I've got it layered and the quilting started, I'm loving all the associations the various shades are bringing up. The backing is like a starry winter sky, the top blues are like deep layers of ice, evening sky, snow-shadows, ocean waters... And the more quilting I put into it, the more depth it achieves.

Maybe I'm just not good at changing gears. Deep breath - BE with the blacks and greens and terra-cottas - think triangles, not squares.... That's going to be a nice quilt too. And when it's done, hopefully I'll be able to switch back into blue-mode.