Flashback Friday -- A Quilt Story

A couple of months ago I had the following text exchange with my little sister Sarah who was about to have her 3rd baby.

{A rough re-enactment of the actual conversation}

Me:  what's your favorite shape?

Sarah:  circle

Me: what's your favorite color

Sarah:  aqua

Me: what color would you pair it with if you had to?

Sarah:  i don't know -- pink or maybe yellow?

Me: okay. perfect.

Sarah: lol.  that was random.

Hahaha.  Random?  Perhaps -- but only to the uninitiated.  You see, I had been trying for a couple of weeks to figure what exactly I wanted to do for the quilt I was going to make for baby Molly.  In the end, I decided to get Sarah's input but I didn't want to spoil any surprises.  As soon as she said her favorite shape was a circle, I knew exactly what pattern I wanted to do for the quilt -- the "Single Girl" pattern by Denise Schmidt.  The actual pattern for this quilt consists of more than one ring, but I kind of liked the way this one looked with the solitary circle floating in the middle.  And then, when she told me her favorite color{s}, I knew exactly what fabric line I wanted to work with -- Bonnie and Camille's Vintage Modern by Moda.  I pulled only the pinks and aquas and greys from the line and used a Kona Snow background and bound it with Kona Meringue {for those who care about fabric details}, and  the backing is a solid piece of fabric from the Vintage Modern line.  I LOVE the way this quilt turned out.  My favorite part is the hand quilting which I did in a concentric circular pattern all over the quilt top.  It really turned out beautifully!  

Close-up of the quilting.

Front.

And back.

And there you have it.  Another bunnysauce creation.