Thursday, September 6, 2007

Drea Dawn's Red Sky at Night






















My daughter, Andrea Dawn, wanted an orange lap quilt to go with her sunset scene comforter set. Orange makes me cringe, but I agreed. While choosing fabrics, I found myself choosing blenders with lots of fuchsia, another sunset color. The comforter features palm trees in black, so I added black for a little contrast.


The overall design uses blended nine-patch blocks for a feel of clouds at sunset. This quilt was a real stretch for me, flying blind, adding blocks to the design wall and seeing what was needed next. I was pleased with the results, though!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Beautiful Quilt!

sewnut said...

Parallel lives I am sure... I made my daughter (Melissa Dawn)a bed quilt with a backing of a multi shaded reddish to ORANGE!!! I quilted it in shades of orange variegated thread
so that it would be reversible.

Anyway chica, I love the colours and the quilt.