110. Marcelle Goes to the Circus

This quilt is definitely in the top five of quilts I have ever made. By this time, I not only had an extensive stash of Kona solids, I had quite a stash of shot cottons (a solid fabric where the warp and weft are each a different color, which can give a luminous or iridescent quality to the fabric). I used Kaffe Fassett shot cottons in my Farmer's Wife quilt (not completed until 2015) and I also had what would become my favorite fabric of all time to work with--Oakshott cottons from the UK. 

The pattern was called Marcelle Medallion, and for this quilt I gave myself some parameters to work with. After each pieced section, the next border needed to be a stripe by Kaffe Fassett and the cornerstone had to be one of his polka dot fabrics.

This was quilted by the amazing Krista Withers.

When it was completed, I gave it to my daughter-in-law, Christa, one day when I found out she was going to the local pumpkin patch. I asked her to take some "location" shots. And thus began my love of quilt photography "in the wild." 

Photos by Christa Wiens:

Title: Marcelle Goes to the Circus

Pattern by: Alexia Abegg

Completed: 2013

Size: 64" x 64"

Quilted by: Krista Withers