First and only quilt top for December 2023

This month is quite a contrast with most months with only one top and many finishes.  Usually it is fewer finishes and as many as 5 tops made in a month (Jan and Apr this year).

This top is called Rosy in the Kaffe Fassett books, first shown in 1997 and made with other commercial prints because he had only designed the yarn dyed woven stripe fabrics at the time they were writing the book.

In the book the blocks are 9".  Mine are 6".  This top is about 52" x 70".

I thought about taking this block out but when I changed it to something all greens the quilt top looked like it was missing something.  The bits of red/pink/orange scattered in the prints gave it a little spark of interest so this one stayed.

Last night I quilted this 18" colorwash that has a majority of Kaffe collective fabrics and other fabrics added to get the smooth blend.  I started out yesterday making a backing for a 63" x 72" quilt but it ended up 2" too narrow.  Then I measured the batting piece that was an end of roll piece and it was 4" too narrow.  Rather than pulling out the big roll of batting and cutting another piece I decided to just finish this little wallhanging instead for #30.

If you click to enlarge this photo you will see I have a binding choice at the bottom edge.  It is brown with orange and green tiny stick trees.  I'm pretty sure this is the one I'll use as I get the binding done today.

My small red cactus surprised me with one more bloom yesterday.

The orange one is just finishing up blooming and this was the last good flower on it.

The pale pink one has always been the overachiever and it had this one bloom and 3 more buds on the side facing the window.

I will be cutting the binding for the colorwash today, sewing it on and hand stitching for the finish.  They I'll do my December recap for tomorrow's post.  I'll start working on the end of year collages but they will be posted the following day.