Orange Prickly Pear: Bound with Crosshatch in Tangerine!

Front,

and back, below:

Detail, below:

This quilt was begun in 2011, in one of Ferret's one-day "Speed Quilt" classes. It's a quilt-as-you-go quilt, with minimal quilting. I then reached an impasse with the colours I'd chosen. (This is actually the second speed quilt I made - the first (the third quilt I ever made) went to my niece abroad, unphotographed. Again, I shall have to remedy that. This was an attempt to recreate that quilt for memememe.

I adore the AMH innocent crush rose in the centre, but was concerned that the colour didn't link into the rest of the quilt. Hence the butterfly - which I think needs tilting a little - it's turned out a little too uniformly placed. It did take many months to arrive at this particular solution!

I outline quilted the central rose, which shows up nicely on the back (photo not uploading for some inscrutable to me reason).

The quilt then sat for years, whilst I auditioned bindings. And then, Architextures arrived, and everything fell into place.

And then the fudge, my favourite bit of this quilt. I was actually binding it (yes I was) when I noticed a slight lack of linen.... I hunted around in my fabrics (more auditioning) and this virtually fell at my feet.

It was a scrap that had been used to wrap a Fat Quarter bundle from far away shores - reader, I keep them all!! Of course then there was a slight diversion whilst I googled furiously in an attempt to identify it - Avant Garden from Modernology by Pat Bravo.