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This quilt requires a bit of explanation for my focus fabric choice. My brother Joe is also my "cycling buddy", and he is the one who started me wearing unusual tights for biking (Joe's motto. "Why go for plain when you can wear flamingos!") So, each time we go to a quilt shop, I've got to search for flamingo prints to use for "someday."
"Someday" finally arrived on New Year's day 2021 when Mystery Quilts Anonymous hosted a New Years day mystery quilt. We were supposed to be able to piece the entire quilt top that day. Well not so much for me. Took me many days, and then even longer to get the quilting done. But I had such a good time!
Several prints in the flamingos, but a the secondary colors were consistent throughout.
The corner flamingos resulted in my not taking time to read up on how to make mitered borders, so of course they were too short. But, having this wonderful large print worked beautifully The quilt had to keep growing to make it the size of a California King bed with drop on the sides. Ended up at 117" square. The birds in the borders are all facing the top. I was at least careful there!
How to quilt this was also the challenge. Once I settled on the "feather theme" (since flamingos have lots of feathers), the worst part was remembering what type of feather went where. And being sure to use the correct thread color. At one point, I had 3 bright green sticky notes on my machine, and on the quilt top as reminders. They didn't even always work!
The backing is a slightly mottled grey, something that would allow the quilting to show. Wool batting to give it loft and warmth.
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