The Yellow Rose quilt was completed today. My husband laughs when I say it is the color of Gulden's mustard but that's what it reminds me of. This whole series of odd color quilts has one very big bonus--the blood stains don't show. Somehow or other I usually prick a finger or even other body parts either sewing or basting the quilts. I do spot clean when that happens and I learned a long time ago when my youngest son had a problem with varicose veins in his nose that Windex is great for blood stains. Still it is nice not to have to worry.

 

  The quilt was still a little damp when we pinned it up and the light doesn't show the fairly elaborate quilting to best advantage but it is done. I used the blue/light blue print that is on the bottom of the basket for the binding so the colors are either Go Navy! or Anassa Kata, kalo kalay ia ia ia Nike! At Bryn Mawr they cheer in ancient Greek. There are some areas with seed stitch stippling.

 I have finished the "flimsy" for the new project. I had my husband take a picture before I marked it up with blue pen.

 

 So there are my yellow roses, hence the name of the quilt--Yellow Rose of Texas--since I am sort of from Texas. There are different fauna mixed in with the flora--the hummingbird, the dragonfly, and the sphinx moth are easy to see but the green cabbage caterpillar is a little harder. This one will be heavily quilted with some nice decorative elements mixed in with the cross hatching. The background fabric is from French General and has a little more surface interest looking sort of like a mustard chambray.

 I have been working on an applique top but at this point in the pandemic and in my quilting life I don't feel very inspired. The center area of the new quilt is a very large basket like a Baltimore Album (surprise, surprise) but it only has some corner floral sprays rather than any series of elaborate blocks. I think I might make a more pieced quilt next time but we'll see. I decided to make this floral basket with big yellow roses, not the norm in any BA quilt. I am not much of a red rose fan but I have only made pink and red roses on quilts in the past so arranging different shades and tones of yellow has been interesting.