Train quilt for Peter

Train quilt for Peter, originally uploaded by *Yellow House*.

I made this one in May 2006, but this picture was taken this afternoon. It was a compromise quilt. Peter chose the bright train print. I really didn't like it, but was sure I could do something with it. I chose bright colors for the center, not the primaries that are the focus of the border print, but yellowish-grayish tones of those colors. Anna is lying on some of my favorite blocks -- there's quite a bit of the orange batiky metallic stripe. (My favorite fabric ever. I wish I had bought the whole bolt.) Anyway, I backed it with a print I loved, and for a long time, always folded it with the backing out. I'm not sure that it's entirely successful, but I'm pretty happy with it as a solution to working with a fabric that I really didn't care for. I wanted to introduce a bit of complexity and subtlety, and also make it brighter and lighter. For a kids fabric, the dark green train print was just too dark. Machine quilted, cotton batting, all cotton fabric. Orange variegated thread, concentric squares, wave pattern in border.