So many beautiful quilts, so little time to copy them!

I’ve mentioned before that I’m a huge fan of Red Pepper Quilts, I think.  She has lots of inspiring quilts, but the one that caught my eye recently is this pineapple quilt: (Click image for more, larger photos on her site)

The bright colors are just stunning.  I would love to have this in queen size on our bed or our guest room bed.  RPQ’s version is I think only 28 x 28, but I think it would look great scaled (as opposed to adding more small blocks).  Regardless, I love it – but it looks like a lot of work.  RPQ provides a paper piecing pattern, though there are other ways to do it.

I also really like this facing east quilt by Carolyn Friedlander.  It reminds me of the Japanese symbol for East, which looks like the sun rising behind a tree.  (The kanji for Tokyo are “east capital,” so it’s a useful character to know.  The kanji for capital is a lantern, since historically capital cities had lanterns at their gates.  Many cities in Japan have this kanji in their names, since many are former capitals, like Kyoto, for example.

Tokyo:     From the left kanji, the square with the line is the sun, and the vertical line is the trunk, and the diagonal lines at the bottom are roots, and the horizontal line at the top represents branches.

Anyway, here’s a picture of part of the quilt from Friedlander’s webpage.  Go to her site for more photos.  She’s come out with a book, which I have on hold at the library.

Her book is titled Savor Each Stitch which is not really happening at this point in my life.  (I’m nursing Briony now as I type.)  What I actually love about sewing as compared to knitting is turning my sewing machine up to max speed, putting the pedal to the metal, and listening to that lovely hum as it easily stitches through miles of fabric.  So nice!

I also like this different stripe quilt by Denyse Schmidt:

 

Finally, I like this sailboat quilt: