First retirement quilt top!

This quilt is “June” by GE Quilt Designs. I pulled the fabric for the quilt along (QAL) in late June, but due to closing out work commitments, I didn’t start work on it until July. And finally put it together this week in August. I had considered using a red grunge fabric where the blue is, but decided that would be both too bright and too much gray. (Grunge usually has gray parts.) I used my big Stripology rule for the cutting and the squaring up. I went deep into the stash for these orange and yellow fabrics — some went back as far as 2007. Some were undated. . . .

Orange and yellow quilt top with royal blue accents, on green grass.
Hey June! (2021)

It was fun to make and fairly quick. We tried holding it up, but it is 6 feet by 7 feet and Barry could either hold it up or hold it out, but not both. We are in the hot part of August right now and my sewing space is a long way away from the heat pumps, so a little warm for extended sewing. I will do a few moments here and there.

Here’s a photo of Suri watching the photo session out the dining room window:

Corgi looking out a window.
Suri watching the photography

By bkb

I'm an archivist and a librarian. I quilt. I'm a Quaker. I'm married. We have 2 cats and a dog. We live in upstate NY in lovely, but gray, Ithaca.