autumn quilt

I just starting quilting this "turning twenty" variation with April Cornell's Sonnet fabric line. I was craving orange and chocolate. Now that I've done the basic stitch in the ditch for the big blocks and the borders, I'm not sure what comes next. I hope to decide tonight, since I would love to sleep under this soon. We are down to twelve hours of daylight and dropping fast.

grave quilts

Friends are visiting from Massachusets, so I am out seeing the sites. One of my favorites is the cemetary in Eklutna Village. Most of the graves are covered with Athabaskan "spirit houses", painted bright colors every spring. (Jim says it reminds him of a minerature golf course.)
Other graves are covered with blankets or quilts weighed down with rocks. We need a quilt anthropologist here! It looks like the top of the quilt disintegrates first, then the batting, then the bottom. Here is one example, with just a fragment of fabric left. I suspect, from the size of the fabric scrap, that the quilt was placed on the grave pieced side down.

feedsack nine patch

Doreen found this vintage quilt in a thrift shop in Oregon (I never find treasures like this!). It is all feedsack fabrics. It is not made well. The quilt is tied at odd intervals. It is double sided, and instead of binding it looks like it was folded and stitched. I though about leaving it intact, but I can't bear it. I feel greedy about this, but if I open it up and back and bind it I'll have a nice lap size antique.

Audrey's quilt

This is the only quilt I've ever made from a kit - April Cornell's Poetry collection. It came in an irresistable fabric box and went together quickly and easily.

Cynthia's quilt

Cynthia lives in a Greenwich Village loft. Not a place for tradional patchwork. So her quilt is white/black/red in a contemporary pattern, Boston Logs. I machine quilted it with a lovely varigated thread (white, gray, black).

I was so thrilled when I saw this in their home. A NYC downtown quilt!