Welcome to During Quiet Time! I would like to share my favorite quilt of this year. I am not very good at naming quilts so it has no real name beyond “my courthouse steps quilt”. It’s a lap sized quilt measuring 60″ square.
I took the traditional courthouse steps block and varied the width of each strip rather than making them uniform.
I tried to use as many different fabrics as I could for each color group, and lots of texture too. Many of the solids are linens and shot cotton, along with some Kona. I stuck to aqua, mustard, coral and grey. The colors just feel peaceful to me and they naturally merge together, in a favorable way, I think.
I love this shot of the quilt on the steps of our local State Park. I appreciate my husband’s help holding it that day because it was frigid out! He removed his gloves so his fingers would be less obvious too.
The quilt back is a mixture of Echo and an improve solid strip down the side. The quilting is straightline in varying intervals.
I hope you will come back again! I really enjoy visiting as many blogs as I can during the festival. It’s always so much fun.
If you care to read my original post on this quilt, you can find it here.
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