What I Did During the Last Georgia Weather Event

It feels like more than a couple of years ago that I went to Sewcial Studio and grabbed a giant handful of Anita's hand-dyed fabrics.  I put them in a drawer and the back of my mind for later use.

 Just recently Anita had a door buster sale every day before Christmas.

I bought this pack of batik fabrics.  They were pretty but I had no earthly idea what I would do with them.  Into the drawer with the hand-dyes.

I finished the back for the quilt I blogged about in my last post so I was still in quilt mode.

Hmm, what if I put the hand-dyes with the batiks?  That peaked my interest but what kind of pattern could I use?  While looking through my Quilts of Gee's Bend book I stumbled on a housetop quilt.  This was my answer.

I cut the 4" wide hand-dyed fabrics strips down to 2".  Starting with a four inch square for the center I grabbed the batik strips in the same order they were in the package and did the same with the hand-dyes.   Overthinking doesn't make a good improvisational piece so I just started sewing.

The housetop part was finished but I wasn't sure if I liked something that small. Fifty-three by fifty three isn't tiny and it makes a nice crib quilt, but this didn't have a crib quilt feel to me.

So, like my friend Marybeth says, I always do epic quilts.  I added the remaining batik strips to make it a  62" x 70" top.

I think I'll do a gray back to make it really modern and spice it up with little pieces of leftover batik.  Don't know about the binding.

Anita here I come!