the bamboo-inspired quilt is done!

I’ve posted occa­sion­ally on the progress of the quilt that Linda was stitch­ing to com­mem­o­rate John’s and my wed­ding last sum­mer. Last week the fin­ished quilt made it into my eager hands and I had to share.

quilt-front

The design was inspired by an art quilt by Liz Axford that I’d encoun­tered online, one of her Bam­boo Boo­gie Woo­gie series. And it hap­pened to be one that Linda had actu­ally seen in person.

If you stare at it long enough you can make out the lit­tle bam­boo stems with their joints. It’s nature abstracted, but the nat­ural rhythms still play out in the final quilt.

quilt-back-detail

The back of the quilt fea­tures two inter­twin­ing bam­boo stems made out of fab­ric from two shirts that we liked so much that we’d worn them until they were thread­bare. Isn’t that the most roman­tic detail?

Thanks so much, Linda–We love the quilt and we’ll trea­sure all your love and effort that went into mak­ing it. The quilt will be hang­ing on the wall before the week­end is over!

May 23 2009 05:52 am | Categories: gardening | Tags: • •

7 Responses to “the bamboo-inspired quilt is done!”

  1. Country Mouse on 24 May 2009 at 7:45 am #

    What a beau­ti­ful quilt — a lov­ing gift is a quilt indeed. Con­grats on your recent mar­riage! My partner’s mother made us a quilt, so com­fort­ing to sleep under. I just noticed what you said about the shirts that were used in the quilt — how lovely is that.

    We thought about a ser­vice that would turn people’s old race teeshirts into a quilt — we have so many from our years run­ning together and it would be fun to have a memento like that. (And to get all those worn-out teeshirts out of the closet) But unfor­tu­nately we lack the skills (and energy) to fol­low through.

  2. lostlandscape on 26 May 2009 at 8:13 am #

    Coun­try Mouse, I really like your idea of a ser­vice to turn memen­tos into a quilt that could be used. If life were sim­pler I could see get­ting into quilt­ing, just like I could see get­ting into oper­at­ing a vine­yard or open­ing a lit­tle art gallery. They’re all pretty roman­tic notions, but all require energy and the proper chops to make them work.

  3. Bird on 27 May 2009 at 10:08 am #

    How won­der­ful! I LOVE that the design on the back comes from your old shirts. I often use favourite old clothes to make some­thing new, but I don’t think I ever made any­thing so beau­ti­ful or roman­tic. But even with­out know­ing that lit­tle detail it’s a really lovely design, front and back. Con­grat­u­la­tions on the quilt, and your marriage!

  4. lostlandscape on 27 May 2009 at 6:49 pm #

    Bird, thanks so much. I’m always reminded of our wed­ding day when I look at the quilt. I like your idea of recy­cling one gar­ment into some­thing new. There are plenty of great ways to recycle.

  5. Greg on 03 Jun 2009 at 7:34 pm #

    So won­der­ful to see the fin­ished prod­uct, and I just love the twin­ing stems on the reverse side. That it’s so per­sonal to you both is even more delightful.

    Timely, the arrival of this com­pleted quilt, eh?

  6. lostlandscape on 04 Jun 2009 at 9:12 pm #

    Greg, after that unfor­tu­nate state Supreme Court Deci­sion at least we’re still offi­cially mar­ried, along with 18000 other cou­ples, which I guess still keeps this a wed­ding quilt. But that’s def­i­nitely bit­ter­sweet with them uphold­ing Prop 8. It should have a bet­ter deci­sion from the courts; it could have been a lot worse.

  7. ryan on 06 Jun 2009 at 6:20 pm #

    That’s a tremen­dous gift. And very clever to link that pat­tern to the form of bamboo.

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