Apples & Owls

Fresh out of the dryer, a finished quilt that I made for my friend Danielle as a baby gift for a friend of hers.  I guess she liked the last one I made, enough to ask for another!  (Geez, that was a month ago? Time flies…)  Anyways, for this one, she said her friend’s nursery was sage green and white, and she got a kick out of the apple/owl/tree prints that I showed her.  So, off I went.

It’s not necessarily my go-to color pallate, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.  Half of the blocks are 4″ (finished) squares of the print with a 1.5″ solid green border (Kona Cotton in Tarragon, I remembered this time!).  The other half have a smaller center, a half-inch bit of white, and then an inch and a half of a print.

A little hard to see in the photo, but the pale green has white polka dots, the orange has tone-on-tone circles, and the other print is a yellow/brown/white sort of scalloped stripe.

The back is more of the Tarragon solid, with some randomly-placed blocks of the focus prints.  And, yes, I did hang this quilt on my swingset to take a picture of it. Oh, like you’ve never done it…

The binding is a sage green and white/cream ticking stripe.  You know how I feel about striped bindings. LOVE!

And, of course, a little label with the new baby’s initials and birthday.  I love my new initial technique, by the way, and will share the step-by-step shortly if anyone is interested.  Pretty straightforward!