When a Brazilian friend of mine and his wife had a baby boy in October, I thought perhaps I would make them a blanket. I put it off though mostly because I was so busy at school. When I finally started, I wasn’t sure what I wanted. I pulled this fabric palette from my stash thinking about how each print represented a different part of nature — sky, sea, land, light, and growing things. Only after I finished did I realize the colors were also from the Brazilian flag. I promise I didn’t do that consciously.
I also didn’t have any particular design in mind. I only knew that I wanted to use the stack of off-cuts from the blanket I did for my niece in the summer, so the squares would have the asymmetrical triangle look.
I finally settled on the series of squares with white squares between (last pic), but even that was a slow decision. This whole quilt took me much longer than others because I sometimes only made one decision a day or even a week! First the colors, then the alternating stripes, then the squares, then how to quilt it, then how to back it, finally how to frame it and bind it. So I took my time, but they loved it and were so surprised when it finally arrived!
Creative Joy 