I hand stitched my signature and 2012 today in one of the corners, and this quilt has officially taken its rightful place in our living room with the marimekko pillows and the Steve Powers silk screen that inspired the palette. I have a very dear place in my heart for this color, and it's as close to pink as I will ever get. I'm in good company: Lawrence and Alice Weiner painted some of the ceilings in their West Village home a very similar color. I've been so anxious to get the binding on since having the premonition about the color many many months ago. It doesn't match, but honestly I'm so sick of matching. It goes with the colors and the design, and looks so much better than matching anyway. Better than going, jiving, or accenting -- it actually saves this quilt from being dowdy and dull. Weird choice? Maybe. Would everyone pick or want this binding on this quilt if they could choose? Probably not, but it's mine. It's so liberating to just not give a damn about what someone else might like, and go with your gut.

1 year and 7.5 months after starting this double wedding ring quilt its hard to remember that it ever looked so humble and tiny.  Over 48,000 hand-quilted stitches later I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by all of the things this project taught me, and all of the things that I experienced through the nearly 20 months while making it. Looking at the back of the quilt especially startles me with the way 4 simple inexpensive materials can come together to make something so exciting. I repeated the most basic hand motion thousands of times to draft these materials into a single object, and the result of that motion is the very thing that becomes the most elaborate and marvelous part of this quilt. I thought it could be so as I was stitching, but there is something completely different when you tie off that last knot and open up the quilt to take a look. The back seemed unimportant to me as I worked, and the surprise of it turning out so lovely has flooded me with all kinds of reflections. The undersides of our lives shape us so much more than we think -- the quiet bits of our routine that are boring and we think forgettable add up to something too. You can shape even the simplest, most banal acts and add them up to shape your life and self from almost nothing. Every now and then those simple little acts might add up to one of those big life changing moments, just like adding up all those stitches you suddenly tie off the thread and find something remarkable all around you.

I've been wanting to make a real bed sized quilt for Tim and I for some time now. I spent a lot of time mulling over what kind of fabric I would use and what it would look like. I thought the double wedding ring quilt would be for my bed when I bought the fabric, but I quickly realized it was better for our living room. I decided triangles would make more sense. An almost austere quilt its so damn simple, and yet hardworking with a light weavers denim making up 90% of the blue halves. Soft and bright is the other half - the frothy white caps of antique muslin. I'll fill it with wool batting, and plan to hand quilt with my very favorite cotton hand quilting thread. I haven't decided if I'll bring curves in with the quilting, or if my hand stitches will be just as straight and rigid as the pieces. It won't be in quilted in the ditch. That much I do know for certain.

These colors are really not my thing, and I let this quilt sit unfinished for eons because it's way too girly for my taste. I think I know just the person to love it for a very long time. It was still a fun super quick project and I'm pleased that I've finished it. Here's to finishing what you've started!

Marbled silk, woven japanese cotton, light and soft cotton lawn, and the deepest most wonderful red there is - its all in this churning ocean waves. 

I love triangles. They're by far my favorite shape to piece. They always make a quilt feel like its dancing, swirling, tumbling. The marbled silk in this quilt feels like such a treasure. It's a subtle field in motion for the swirling triangles, like starlings swirling across a blustry sky. Reminds me of this song. Available in my shop.