Northwest Quilt

It's DONE!

After 100 hours of Quilting!

I started this quilt on a trip to Portland for work.  I wanted something to applique while I was waiting in airports and also in my hotel room at nights.  I picked up a stack of half quarters from work that are a lodge print.  I liked the colors and just started appliqueing the squares with the orange in the center and leaves coming out. I wasn't sure how I was going to use them to make a quilt.

Then I started on the center, to have a break from squares.  The center turned out good.

Putting the quilt together wasn't easy.  I only had a stack of fat quarters.  Not much of any one fabric.  But I also know I wanted it to have a lot of white to do a lot of quilting in.

LOTS of quilting!

I think  a lot of things work because I tried to

Repeat, Exaggerate and Simply...

I am going to enter it in HMQS next month. I had to come up with a name for it because I have always referred to it as "The Bear Quilt" because of the fabric.  I have  loved the Northwest since visiting Jami and her family up there and ging to see all of the incredible sights. I wanted my quilt to be organic, lots of nature in it... pebbles, ferns, feathers, leaves and BEAR.  So, I figured Northwest was a good name for it.

And it just so happened on this WORK trip, Jami and the girls drove down for the weekend and we had a great time together.