Tsquared Quilts, Cooks and Calculates Life: Tea and Cakes

Dear Readers,

Last year when I went to Quiltville Inn on a quilter's retreat with some of my favorite quilters, Patti and I took an afternoon and drove to a neighboring town and went fabric shopping. Patti and I both bought Tula Pink bundles and a pattern called Lucky Stars by Atkinson. I had wanted to use that pattern to make a quilt using her Curiouser and curiouser line of fabrics. This line of fabrics is based on the story of Alice and Wonderland. I decided to make the quilt in the Lap size which is 60 x 75. Meanwhile sometime during the school year, Celeste was home and her dear friend came over and she picked some fabrics for a quilt. I did not show her the curiouser and curiouser line as it was sitting on the washing machine as I am an avid pre washer. Any way I realized a lot of the fabrics she picked were very similar colors to the line.

So I made Lafadra's quilt using the curiouser fabric, taking out the queen of hearts fabric and the Alice fabric and subbing in some of the tiny beast line, that I also loved. I used the fabrics Lafadra picked for the back and I think both came out cute. Hope she loves it.

I had a lot of fun practicing my freemotion on the long-arm. It is certainly a different skill than on my sit down machine. I was using books by Angela Walters and Leah Day for most of the inspiration but I used a few others too.

I thought I would post close ups of the individual blocks, so you could see what I was doing. On each block I did something different on each white section, a different pattern on the strips surrounding it and then something on the center block.