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 | Categories: gardening | Tags: • • | 7 Comments »