Top: Pinecone Garland for Winter Solstice, 2005, 56"x 80"A sale fabric from P&B printed in 1999 called Pinecone Garland was the starting point for this quilt. I've long been fascinated by the curving cones of the Eastern White Pine and strung them together as garlands in my 1888 Victorian house when I lived in Kansas City, MO. Finding this image printed on fabric stimulated me to buy 1 1/2 yards of the sale fabric. Two years later, inspired by the Jan Krentz book The New Lone Star, I pulled fabric together to compliment the colors in the border print of the garland fabric. I was severely challenged to create this 56"x 80"quilt with the fabric on hand. Machine quilted on my 1971 Bernina #830 from Sally LeBeouf.
In fact, the second 22"x 22" piece is formed from the remnants of the first quilt. I hand quilted it this June, adding the vintage mother of pearl buttons to brighten it up and to mark fall and winter equinox and winter and sunner solstice. No more of this favorite fabric remains. If you ever see it anywhere, please buy it for me!
To make this pinecone wreath, I wired the cones to a purchased wire wreath base. It will last several years even exposed to the elements year round.
Great winter festival quilt! I've seen several pine cone fabrics, but none that I like as well as the one you found.
ReplyDeleteGreat Holiday Quilt! Great use of that border fabric too! very nicely done!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
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