It took me a long time to get around to quilting this top which I finished in June. It sat around all summer, waiting! Seems appropriate to have finished now because this quilt feels very autumnal.

The pattern is called “Piece of Cake”, Karen Montgomery’s 2024 Brown Bag Mystery Quilt. My Brown Bag came from O’Sewpersonal in O’Fallon, Missouri. I exchanged two fabrics in my bag for 2 alternates in the same fabric line, Kim Diehl’s “Quiet Grace” line printed by Henry Glass & Co., Inc.

The colors in the fabrics are outside of my comfort zone. I tend toward bright primary colors or pastels. So I didn’t love with this quilt while I was working on it. It was only today, when I hung the finished quilt on the clothes line that realized that it really is a beautiful quilt.

I mostly used straight line quilting but there are free-motion quilted daisy-like flowers in the rust colored blocks and tiny clusters of berries in the setting border blocks which echo the berries in the black fabric.

The quilt is turned on it’s side in the photo above so that it didn’t drag in the dusty ground. Here is a photo of the quilt rotated.

Image rotated to show the quilt as it’s intended to be shown.

And finally a couple of pictures of my assistant, who has taken an active part in the assembly of this quilt. Click to see him earlier in the process. Seems like he thinks he’s the subject of my photograph and then turns around and realizes that maybe he isn’t the star this time!