In a previous post, Pikachu was posing her adorable self on one of the quilts my sister made me a few months ago, and Christine from All the Vintage Ladies commented on it, asking for pictures of my other quilt of the book covers, so here they are. Since today is our first sunny day with hints of spring to come, I tried for better shots of all of them.
Front and back of book quilt. This picture came out well enough that you can see the different book-related patterns she quilted into the covers. The titles are stitched in, but some of them are filled with fabric paint because she felt they got lost against the fabrics. This is a full-sized quilt, and perfect for curling up in on the couch or in bed.
(MT’s feet say “hi!”)
The quilt below is a queen-sized and it just lights up our bedroom, a room that suffers from a lack of abundant natural light. I wanted a traditional patterned quilt in blues and greens and that’s exactly what I got, although she jazzed up the back a little bit, and it makes me love this quilt even more.
I’m not quite sure why, but WP darkens the photos – I just compared the image I uploaded from my desktop to this one and this one is darker and bluer, which pissed me off – thank you WP for giving me another reason to be irritated.
Here’s the back, which is NOT darker… UGH!, but anyway, the background is a faded map of the world, and she used a few leftover pieces for those hip and happening stripes, which gives it a mid-century modern vibe (I think).
And finally, with the scraps from both those quilts, lest the cats feel left out (they don’t because they think those two quilts above were really made for them), my sister, quilter extraordinaire, made this for the cats, which Pikachu has staked her claim to:
My sister has made these for quite a few cats of her acquaintance and usually puts catnip in them, but with border controls here re-defining paranoia, I told her not to risk it. The cats don’t miss it and love it just as it is.
Wow! Those are both just gorgeous! I’m so glad I got a full view of both of them!
I think I recognize the fabric in the blue & green quilt as at least partly Zen Chic fabrics (and the pattern seems to be one of hers, too), although I can’t be sure! Anyway, just beautiful, both of them! Thank you for posting.
Zen Chic it might be! I picked out a fat roll that had all the colors I loved, and the pattern, from the same place the last time I was in the US. But I did swap out a few of the fat roll pieces I didn’t like as much for odds and ends I found in a scrap basket. The delft cats you can just see in the header picture is one of them, as I wanted a little cat in both my quilts. There were a few others bits and pieces too; just enough to make it unique (and replace the pieces that just screamed “1970’s!” in a way that gave me flashbacks).
These are amazing. Quilter extraordinaire indeed!
They are absolutely gorgeous (I like the one with the book cover best) and they are just perfect for cats(and dogs)
And me! They’re perfect for me! lol, that’s what I’m always telling my cats as they blatantly steal all the strategic spots. 🙂