We headed out the door on a “Saturday ride-about”, bringing cameras and a quilt. This depot was abandoned at the moment, so we posed the quilt and snapped a few shutters.
This little quilt, Linen Baskets, is a sample I made a couple of years ago when my favorite quilt shop had a fat quarter bundle of linen fabrics. The polka dots are all linen, the white background is a Kona cotton solid. Finished, it measures 35” x 43”, a nice size to drape over a chair or hang on the wall.
I love the little baskets. They are adapted from a pattern called Big Bloomers from QuiltSoup. I added wool appliqué in the border with some beading and embellishments.
We live near Zebulon Road, but it doesn’t lead to the town of Zebulon. That fact amuses us. We have noticed many Zebulon Roads in the middle GA area which, when studying a map, do not lead to Zebulon either. So for this little quilt to get to pose on benches and doors and roof brackets of the depot in Zebulon was a fun note to add to our day.
The quilting is a quick loopy meandering trail done with cotton thread and using thin cotton batting. The backing is a bright fun Jane Sassaman design. Many people like basket quilts as much as I do, but when I take this to groups, there are always gasps of delight when they see the back of this one.
I liked the contrast of the soft quilt with the hard lines of the doors and the weathered wood of the floor boards. Jim did some of his darkroom magic on some of his shots, intermingling color and black and white. I never get tired of that!
