Scrappy Rainbow Quilt

On St. Patrick's Day, I made a little rainbow quilt. I loved my little piles of colorful scraps. 

It's about 20 inches square and will be a wall hanging, although I'm not sure where yet. 

Am I the only one who feels like there's zero breeze until I attempt to photograph a quilt? 

The colors of the rainbow are made with small squares (about ¾- 1 ½") and quilted with matching thread in an arch shape. 

Above the rainbow is quilted with big loops (to look like clouds in my mind). 

And below, the quilting mimics the arch of the rainbow and some little hills and landscape shapes. 

The back is rainbow polka dots on white and it turned out to be pretty fun with the colors of the thread I used for the quilting. 

I think the back is almost as fun as the front... 

... almost...   ; ) 

My love of rainbows goes back to when I was a little girl. I love this quilt and I think (?) I am done with rainbows for a little while, after several projects in a row! We will see!  : )

My First "Art Quilt"

I took Sara Kelly's class last night to learn how to make art quilts. This is what I started in class and finished today. I think it was a little ambitious for a first project (an abstract would have been a lot easier, I think). But... these landscape quilts are what always catch my eye at quilt shows and what I've been very interested in learning to make. For my first ever art quilt, I am so proud of how it turned out.

Here's some detail of my favorite part - the lumpy, interesting tree. I love all the curves and layers - it turned out exactly how I wanted it to (not usually the case for me in my artistic attempts).

Here's what it looked like at the end of class last night. I worked on it during the kids' naps today and once I got the blue background complete, the tree came together very quickly.

Session two is next week, where we'll learn how to make a quilt using a photograph as inspiration. My two worlds are beginning to crash together. Soooo exciting.

Now I just need to figure out how to quilt this baby! Hmm....................