This quilt was inspired by two things that happened in the summer. Firstly, Sophie of lunalovequilts blogged about her "Love" quilt. I love everything about this quilt, but especially the abstract lettering in the centre. Secondly, the theme in the upstairs room of our Flowerpatch Quilters exhibition was LOVE so I did my own abstract lettering to make a mini quilt 7½" square. I foundation pieced the letter squares then sewed them together.
By the by I also did another mini quilt for the exhibition using inktense pencils to draw the letters and added quilting and embroidery.
The quilting of Red Letter Life took quite a while. Its vertical wavy lines were sewn by machine with my walking (even feed ) foot.
I avoided all the red letters and quilted these by hand with horizontal lines. I really like the effect of the two types and directions of the quilting.
From the beginning I planned to sew small circles on my quilt to represent the happy bubbly feeling I often get in my life ......... especially when I'm starting a new quilt! I scattered some buttons on the quilt and took a pic ......
......but they simply looked distracting, so I ended up just sewing on some red circles around the edge.
I think though that I may be tempted to add more little circles to my quilt - maybe very subtle ones - we shall see.
Red Letter Life measures 32½" square and I'm hoping that you've been able to read my abstracted words.
Happy Bubbles - Anita x
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