Quilt bee quilt!

three posts today, and the best for last.

drum roll, please...

that's right, after a mere year and a half, I have finished my quilt for the Common Threads quilt bee!



My design plan was to combine a bunch of sad gray solids with a touch of coral red. I really like dreary sorts of color schemes lately, combining muted colors with dingy solids as opposed to the bright colors on white backgrounds that I used to work with a lot.

I think about 65% of the blocks are from the members of the quilt bee, and then I added in a few more to make a throw-sized quilt. I really like the blocks made by all the bee members.



I had pieced together the top last year, but lost interest in making the back or putting it together. But I hauled it out a few weeks ago and decided to finish it.

Since I first started it last year, I ended up getting a new couch that matches that red color quite well...



the grays go well with my gray loveseat - plus it appears to be the perfect width for laying over the back of the loveseat.



I quilted it in long vertical wonky stripes. I had planned a solid light gray binding, but on the last day of quilting it, I realized how awesome a striped binding would look.



My favorite part is actually the back.



It is another design inspired by glass artwork, this time the fused glass work of Klaus Moje that I saw at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York when visiting my sister.

I like the vertical quilting against the horizontals of the back pattern.



For being a sad-colored quilt, I'm pretty happy with it. :)