Hush & Brush

Edit (August 2011): This quilt is currently for sale in my Etsy shop.

This is a quilt I finished about a year ago, but somehow never blogged except for a few progress shots.

Hush and Brush is named after the kittens in The Color Kittens, a book I loved as a child, and which my children now enjoy. It reminded me of this page:

The whole quilt started from a mistake -I accidentally cut the lyrebird 'tail' for another quilt from the wrong fabric, and didn't want to waste it. So I cut a whole lot more from a rainbow of other fairy frosts, and played until I came up with this layout. That's why my working title for this quilt was 'tails'!

This was the first quilt I quilted on my new machine, and I was having some problems.

This was also my first go at McTavishing - I think I've improved a bit in the last 12 months!

I really liked the flange/peeper border on this.

I've hung onto it for a while, but am thinking I'm ready to put it in my Etsy store soon - please contact me if you're interested.