One of the things I learned from Yoshiko Jinzenji's book is that simple shapes and simple piecing can create wonderful quilts. While I'm not close to her exquisite work with simple shapes, I do love creating that way. This quilt is all about placement of values. The dark in this quilt is Kona ash, which in many quilts acts as a light. It also has Kona pale flesh, a subtle gray/white stripe, Kona white and Kona snow which together create this subtle, low volume quilt. This is one of the quilts that I gave Angela to use for her book on machine quilting and it came back in the mail all quilted up. Genius again! I can't wait to get my hands on her book. I haven't seen it for so long, I forgot how much I liked it. So funny that it's so much the same as this quilt...just different shapes. I'm glad I took the time to do a bias binding. I love stripes on the bias. I'm kinda in love with the back as much as the front. It's that amazing Jay McCarroll Habitat fabric. I adore that fabric. My youngest son, Jon, loves the back of this quilt too...and as he told me, "The back is WAY better than the front." This one will be donated to the BASIC's program as soon as I have a nice full box to send. I hope some little girl who likes pink gets this one.
