fair isle baby quilt

I've been working on this baby quilt for months, slowed down by the smaller piecing and general distractions. the design is improvised; I made up the plan for each row as I went. the idea for a Fair Isle sort of quilt with different designs on horizontal rows is one of those ideas I've had rattling around in my head for a while. Like since 2009.



I switched up the colors halfway through too, though I don't entirely love the final combination. That khaki background is too dark. I have gobs of this fabric, since I ended up not using it in the project I originally bought it for. but I think it just is too murky for the kinds of colors I usually work with.

the backing fabric is something I found in my stash that not only goes pretty well with the color scheme, but was also exactly the right size to fit the front.



Quilted in my usual haphazard horizontal wavy lines.