Sweet Pea Manor

Well here's a throwback Thursday for you...

This is an oldie.  I got the pattern back when Judith owned the shop, and started it a few years ago.

 Let me start by saying, it's a (really) cute pattern.  It's got good bones!  But, and this may be shocking to hear out of me, that cover sample is just too much.  There is so much stuff going on, and it's all bright and while the colors are all very different...the tones are not.  Excluding the yellow (light) and the blue (dark), everything else is tonally similar and I think some neat details get lost in all that.

So, I changed it up.  I kept the bright colors, but added some more mid tones and black and white. I omitted the stars in the sky, And no, the sky isn't freakin' pink.

Almost there...

The center is complete!

The baskets kicked my ass for some reason.  I guess subconsciously I wanted them to be bear paws.

Well executed, but wrong. 

All that's left now is to get the borders on, which, I haven't decided what those are yet, and to quilt it up. 

Bucky McFinn

It's pretty rare where I find a book and I like every single quilt in it.  I think you probably can relate there, I can't be the only one!  Usually I will like a couple of things in it, but I also usually see a few stinkers.

Well, I have found one of those rare books in which I like every single quilt in the book.  But...it just so happens to be a kid's quilt book.

Animal Parade By Cheri Leffler is full of really cute quilts targeted to kids, but I fell in love with the sea life quilt in there.  I made it for no other reason than I liked the quilt and that we had the perfect, silly sea fabric to go with.

Most of you have seen this hanging in the shop already over the past few months, but I'm just now getting around to posting it on here...

I call the quilt Bucky McFinn because if you look at the shark in the border, he has a CRAZY overbite.  Mom and I named him Bucky McFinn - no one's afraid of him because he can only bite himself!