flowering snowball reveal!

 dappled adjective having spots of a different shade, tone or colour

 from the background.

 Nine months ago I conceived an idea for a quilt and today I gave birth!

The pattern is a simplified version of a flowering snowball pattern,

that I had admired on Marys blog.

I had just finished the summer of love quilt

so I was after an escape from all that colour!

The latter part of 2011 was a very grey year for me

 grey walls, grey skies and grey fabric.

I was inspired not by an object but of several blogs and a way of living,

one that I would love to live, but I just love colour too much to be that pure.

sea cottage  and  dreamy whites

will give you the ethereal idea.

This quilt really should be called the learning curve,

as it's a first for me to sew curves, applique a quilt to the backing

 and also a first attempt at free motion quilting.

So you will have to forgive my overly whimsical, highly poetic choice of 

dappled days as a name, 

I can only say that I was channelling my inner Geoffrey Munn

(the romantically imaginative jewellery expert on the antiques roadshow)

 

Now for the juicy bits!

the pattern: flowering snowball

the fabric: sweetwater

sewing method: english paper pieced

backing: recycled bedding

quilting: free motion

size: approx 50" x 65"

wadding: heirloom premium cotton

time taken: 9 months

mistakes made: knowing that the backing was really too small but using it anyway,

which came back to bite me when sewing on the binding!

lesson learnt!

snuggle factor: very

ps.

If you would like to look back on the dappled days progress

check out here and here