I completed this quilt top when we were stuck in the house during a typhoon this summer. Then it went into my UFO stack waiting for that "urge" to go farther with it... finding the right backing fabric, making the quilt "sandwich," quilting it -- and then hand-sewing the binding. That last part always keeps them in the UFO stack for awhile!! :)
But it's finally done -- and I really LIKE it!!
Let me tell you a bit about this quilt... I found the fabric while I was visiting my Mom in Bloomington, IN this summer. Jeff and Marie had hosted our family for a GREAT family reunion, and we'd spent lots of wonderful family time on their fabulous front porch. This front porch is really amazing -- more like a casual living room, complete with a stone fireplace. I know that Jeff and Marie and their friends spend a lot of time out there, and I just thought that they needed a quilt for their sofa. Marie had recently recovered the cushions on the sofa, so I "borrowed" a piece of that fabric and took it with me the next time I went fabric shopping. I found the two yellow prints that just seemed to want to be together... the paisley and the floral blend together in the quilt until you look closely... then the dark blue print just seemed like the perfect fabric to pull it all together! I found the backing fabric here in Okinawa... the colors were perfect and it just seemed like a fun fabric for a "porch quilt"! Now that I had the fabric, I had to figure out what pattern to use... I pored through books... turning down pages... searched internet pages and found lots of possibilities... and then I ran across http://www.quiltswithstyle.com and found this pattern called Folkloristisch. The pattern was inspired by traditional Dutch dance steps. I made a few pattern modifications so that I could strip-piece it (this was the my first attempt at doing that with a pattern all on my own!!)
Since you're reading about this quilt for my brother, you might be interested in Jeff's website
