Shortly after I started quilting, I decided to start a tradition of giving each of the three “boys” (they will always be boys to me) a queen-sized quilt for their 30th birthday. Dave was first in 2003:
Then Tony in 2005:
And now Rob’s birthday is coming up in April 2009. For Rob’s I thought I would try my hand at designing my own pattern, using Electric Quilt, which I purchased from Judy Laquidara this fall.
September 29, 2008, Judy L. had an inspirational pep-talk type of post encouraging her readers to Follow Your Dreams. It made me really stop and think what it was I wanted to do with quilting that I wasn’t already doing. It was to learn to use the Electric Quilt software, and then to design my own quilt, so it would really feel like my own work when it was completed.
I did this design in October, and maybe that’s where the color scheme came from (autumn). I found a same/similar star block in Electric Quilt to one of the blocks Judy L. is using in her Star BOM (Block of the Month) that I’m participating in. It’s the star with the checkerboard center. I love this block. Thank you so much, Judy, for all your inspriration. Here’s what I came up with:
I got Rob’s approval on the above pattern and color scheme when he was home for Thanksgiving. Today I was in a local quilt shop, hoping to find fabric that would be a pretty close match to the EQ fabrics I used in the sample. I’m really pleased with what I found — Robert Kaufmann Fusions. (I don’t have the light gold background fabric yet.)
Are these fabrics spot-on or what??? They really have the richness that I wanted without being “girly” at all. Yummy! Today was a very good day.
Sue
