and now back to our regular obsessive progamming

It feels like fall around here these days, which means a variety of things, like leaf mold & the first worthwhile apples of the season; don't mess with my delicately orchestrated tivo setup, dear husband, & I'd better hurry up & find a winter coat for the girl, & wait, HOW soon do shows start?  It's got me thinking -- unusually for me -- about warm colors & I even bought a little bit of orange fabric.  Orange is consistently one of those colors that I can truly, deeply admire when I see it on or around other people, & I have a lot of respect for the particular quality of its...orangeness, I guess, but I always have to kind force myself to use it.  So I'm starting with red instead.

It suddenly struck me, late yesterday afternoon, that I'd really like to try quilting this one with red thread, only my husband wasn't going to be back from his business trip until after the fabric stores closed & I didn't feel like dragging the princess & the soccer hooligan out on a thread quest, but then, lo!  Turns out that way in the back of the drawer where I keep my quilting thread was a big spool of red thread purchased for no specific project that I can think of, which just goes to show that sometimes you really DO need to buy random supplies because they're pretty just in case.

I like the way the red thread adds another tonal layer to the front, but I really especially like the way the back of this one looks.  I'm having a little bit of a conceptual moment about colored quilting thread right now.  Up until this point, I had considered myself to be completely devoted, no muss-no fuss, to the school of "natural-colored" cotton quilting thread, but I like the red enough that this afternoon I went & bought a handful of other colors. Including orange.  Just in case.

Comments

[erin]

it looks great, daria!

[jeanetta]

such an eye catching quilt. i am usually not a red person ( very orange actually, lol) but i love it with that grey.

[emilyruth]

i have been loving your loop-dee-loops...they are my favorite doodle & now i am inspired to try on the sewing machine...if only i knew how...i think it has something to do with feeding dogs, oh feed dogs, yes, whatever that means...thanks for the visual delights:)

[Anina]

I know what you mean about orange, but once I started using it I couldn't stop and now everything seems to have orange in it. I love your swirly quilting. I should try it if I can manage to freehand without breaking 50 needles.

[stephanie]

aaah, Red. Red and I just had our first date a few days ago. Red was very sweet, kind, and a simply lovely guest to have on the sewing machine. And...Red sold from the Shop yesterday! yay for Red!

[Jen]

I apologize if this sounds at all stalkerish, but I wish I could watch you doing the loop-de-looping. I just have no idea how to make my machine / my fabric / my thread do that so perfectly in little rows all the way across. Is it quick? slow? agonizing? It looks fantastic.

[meg]

I know the red is really the focus (and it is lovely) but the gray is beautiful. It makes everything really pop!

[michelle]

Beautiful!

My damn feed dogs won't go down, so I can't try any of this fancy foot work. Ack!

[amandajean]

I love your obsessive programming! your patchwork and your pillows are wonderful...

I love the red thread. you just never know what supplies you might need.

[pandora armband]

Thank you ,it's really useful.

[ed hardy]

Love the necklace! Etsy it up!