We left home on a recent glorious fall day with a camera and some quilts in the car. We ended up with boxes of notecards showing Jim’s photos of quilts in unexpected places.
The most stunning image to me is this one of Miss Lily’s Baskets on a hayrake. It was a sunny day, but the magician’s hand in the digital darkroom transformed it into something ethereal.
The same little quilt posed on the mantel in a rustic living room,
and on a chair at an outdoor banquet table.
Another seasonal quilt, Pomegranates and Poinsettias, lounged on a chair in front of poinsettias and a Christmas tree. A fire in the fireplace was welcome on this cool day.
Small Tree Farm became part of a vignette of tools on the side of a building.
I love the contradictions in texture: soft quilted textiles against hard rusty tools.
I love the contradictions in value: brilliant colors of fabric against old wood faded to gray.
In case you missed them, earlier posts give details of these quilts. Miss Lily’s Baskets is here.
Pomegranates and Poinsettias is here, and Small Tree Farm hasn’t really been described except on the page of patterns I’ve designed. Another post about it and its larger companion piece will be forthcoming.
Last year’s post about Christmas quilts is here. Details of some of these same quilts are included in that post, with photos in different surroundings. If you are wondering, Mistletoe and Holly, mentioned in last year’s post, isn’t finished, but I’m working on it now – repeating my love of stitching on red and green during this season.
While browsing my photo files for Christmas quilts, I found this image of a commissioned piece I did a few years ago. I think its colors are well suited for this season, too.