A Prairie Home Quilts

Quite some time ago, I was on The Quilt Index and saw a quilt that was named moon in 4 phases or seasons or something like that.  The name sparked a connection to the Drunkard’s Path pieces that  I’ve been playing with a lot lately.  It got me thinking about using Drunkard’s Path pieces in a way that would depict the moon’s phases.  [I told you The Quilt Index was a dangerous place for me.] What about the quilt?  I can’t even tell you exactly what pattern it was.  It really didn’t speak to me.  Not the pattern nor the colorway — just the title and I can’t even remember if it was the title of the block layout or just a title the quilt maker gave her quilt.

I played around in EQ6 and came up with a design I liked.  I found some scraps to use in my pile of landscape fabrics.  I wanted to make this up and test my skills at sewing multiple curved seams with the sewing machine.  I felt I needed to get some practice in before I start on my many Drunkard’s Path pattern ideas.  After doing this top and some units for the Rose Basket wall hanging, I can do them fairly quickly & accurately with only 3 pins so I think I’m ready.  Here is the EQ6 design and my finished top.

You can see in the finished top that I ended up changing the position of the colors from my original EQ6 design.  I didn’t like my pink color next to the orange-y, golden brown when I had it all laid out.  The green looks better next to it.  I don’t know what I’m going to do with this top yet.  It may just become another practice piece for my hand quilting.