This beautiful quilt is made out of batik fabric. In case you have never used batik fabric. It's more closely woven to hold up under the dying process which means there is less distortion of the fabric during the cutting and sewing process. My sister Marian collected batiks for years. Recently she pulled them all out to make a quilt, I was there and she gave me some of each fabric. It was such a wonderful day (couple of days actually) spent ironing and cutting all these batiks and laughing and chatting with my sister. She had enough to give me 4 in centers and 2 1/2 inch strips of everything. She also cut squares and strips for herself and all the rectangle for the original quilt she had planned. I came back from my visit to Dallas with 2 bags of precut pieces. I separated them into two stacks. I pulled out the oranges, yellows, reds and the few browns most of the pinks and half of the purples into one stack. So I was left with all the blues, greens, limes, blacks, some pinky magentas and half of the purples to make this beauty. I had enough squares left over from this project to make a blue couch throw as well. I used the warm colors to make a throw as well. But that is another story.
Sometimes I like to look at this when I am missing my sister and think about how fun that visit was.
