Beach Quilt

....water, waves, tide pools, sand, shells, seahorses, the sun glinting off of the water, shades of shallow water, shades of deeper and deeper water, seaweed......

Inspiration: Pinwheel Cove by Theresa Eisinger
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You can almost hear the waves crashing on the shore......

What? You can't hear it?
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This is a wedding quilt I made for a bride and groom who live on the Oregon coast.  This is the center block on the quilt....reminds me of mermaid's hair strewn with pearls.

Congratulations, Kyle and Jeri!

 The back

The side light makes it look purple but as you can see above, it's not.

This is actually 2 quilts in one since the back gives you a totally different look.

~Back to the beginning~

Here it was a small section of the quilt on the design wall.

  I printed out clip art, sized it to fit in the space and cut out the shells, etc.

Here are my paper models.

I used my west window like a light box.  After I pieced each block, I taped the pattern to the window and then taped the quilt block over it and and traced the shells.  Then I sewed all the blocks together.  When I got done, my quilt top was all marked.

You can barely see the blue markings in the white areas. 

....um....this is as close to stained glass as I will ever get.  I have some friends that do some awesome stained glass pieces, but I think I will stick to my needle and thread.

 

Floating along on the frame.

This was a really fun quilt: all batik fabrics.  I prewashed them and they feel really good, making this quilt soft and fluffy.