This is my Comfort and Blessings quilt which was a sew-along last year hosted by Piecing the Past. I really enjoyed this sew-along, which was a block of the week. A very welcome distraction during the pandemic shut down. The sew-along was free at the time, but if you missed out, the patterns are available for purchase for $19.99 from Piecing the Past. They are quite nice blocks and some are very unusual.
I should note that I changed up the size of the blocks, reducing them from 9 inches down to 6 inches. In retrospect, I probably should have left them at 9 inches as I would have ended up with a much larger quilt.
I am very pleased with the colors I used, which are brighter Civil War Reproduction fabrics. There are a lot of different backgrounds, mostly cream tone on tone prints by Kansas Troubles. The alternating squares are all the same fabric for continuity.
The quilt really looks nice in my bedroom. My walls are painted a soft sage green, and I have several colorful paintings in the room that have the colors of the fabrics in them. The overall effect is quite cheerful and spring-like.
This is one of my favorite paintings, and it hangs over our bed in the master bedroom. It is by Lydia and Yvgeny Baranov, a husband and wife team who paint together. we bought it at the Jones & Terwilliger Gallery when we lived down near Carmel, CA. It features a farm woman in a red dress gathering up all her little chicks in her apron at the end of the day. It never fails to soothe my soul.
The end of the week is in sight. Any plans for the weekend? Or are we not quite there yet? I will take my turn visiting my dad. Please pray for no plumbing disasters.