Sing a Rainbow

In the last week, I also quickly whipped-up this quilt. Does it look familiar? I still had a lot of blocks left from the EB Quilters' bright log cabin strips swap in 2007 after making this. I just reversed the layout this time. In fact, I still have 8 blocks left! A friend at work has just gone on maternity leave for her second child (her first was born just 4 hours before Eleanor, and we were across the corridor in the same hospital!). I hadn't realised how quickly it was creeping up, so had little time, and she hasn't found out whether she's having a boy or a girl, so this was a good solution, especially as I know from last time they were decorating with brights.

I stippled the whole thing, using a sunset variegated thread on the warm colours, and a variegated turquoise on the cool colours.

It's a bit hard to tell on the back, because I used a busy bl;ack-on-white heart print:

And here it is from the back with a little sunlight coming through. It would have been better with bright sun, but we're enjoying a wonderful wet week or so here and it's mostly overcast. We need the rain badly. I noticed the first of the spring bulbs just poking through the soil and fallen leaves this afternoon; I wonder how many will have survived our very hot and very dry summer? For now we'll enjoy the wet autumn.