My girl Sofia came home from school today all excited because her teacher had asked her to bring in a quilt her Grandma made for her with tesselating cats on it.
They are studying tesselations in class and Sofia remembered I had told her the cats were tesselating, she told her teacher, and the teacher asked her to bring in the quilt. She has a VERY cool teacher! I also remembered a small quilt I made a few years ago which you can see I blogged about HERE, that I’ll send with her too.
I don’t have a lot of fall themed quilts in my home – I absolutely love the fall, but don’t really work a lot with the deeper fall colors in quilts. I remember throwing a bunch of Kaffes in there to make it a little more exciting for me.
This mini quilt is usually on my bedside drawers covered in books, sewing supplies, the lamp…you name it, but I took it off the other day to give it a wash.
Now that the years of dust have been washed off it, I can actually see how bright and vibrant it really is. I had forgotten!
I just found a blurb I wrote about making it way back in October 2008 on Nancy’s blog, With Thread In Hand. I wrote…
“It’s a little wallhanging, 20″ x 22″ and I’m calling it Acorn’s Fall as I have seen so many acorns so far this fall that I believe this Fall belongs to the Acorns!
I designed the quilt myself and did wool appliques on the borders. It was a little tricky to piece, as the shapes were curved, but it sure was fun! I wanted to design a pieced yet curved shape reminiscent of an acorn. Even the border fabric looks a bit like acorns! I quilted simple curves on each piece to look a little like an acorn ‘cap’.”
Gosh I’m so glad I wrote that – I never would have remembered the inspiration! Not to self: Start a quilting journal and write down the inspiration for each quilt I make!
