With New Eyes-Blogger's Quilt Fest Spring 2010

Seven months....that's how long it has been since the last Blogger's Quilt Fest and that's how long I have been blogging....so I'll blame...uhum....thank Amy for that!;) Thanks Amy!! I will also thank Lynz for this quilt....With New Eyes....she is the one that told us about the tutorial at Sew Mama Sew for a supersized Shoo-Fly quilt. Each individual square on mine is 25" and that is a perfect size for showcasing a large print....which I realized in the above photo is upside down!
Ah, this is better. Once I saw this pattern I really couldn't think of what fabric to use...then I had a dream and actually remembered it when I woke up. In my dream I was recommending Jane Sassaman's Sunshine and Shadows to a customer because of the big print....duh! Big and bold Jack-in-the-Pulpit and Coleus in amazing colors...perfect! This is the first quilt I have sewn that I have used fabrics totally from a collection...sometimes you just have to go with it! Speaking of going....go check out the Blogger's Quilt Fest Flickr pool too....amazing things going on out there!!

With the leftovers I started to sew something for the backing but decided it needed to be it's own quilt...so now it is a work in progress.
So once again I took what was now leftover and found a mauvy purple solid Kona and a few wavy quilting lines later With News Eyes was done....and named after a band my son used to be in....now his band is Hold Tight!

Green, purple and fushia....I think these are my favorite colors...how lucky was I to find these two chairs while at the beach this week...they go pretty good with our door!

I think those are Slates favorite colors too!

~d

"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."

Thomas W. Higginson