A Mid-Winter's Quiltress

I got this quilt-top pieced this weekend, finally. I had the individual squares done a month ago, but it got shelved and had to wait its turn.

It's a pattern called Disappearing Nine Patch, and there's a great tutorial here. I think this might qualify as the most outlandishly wild quilt I've ever made... I love it! Stripes and polka-dots and gargantuan florals; hot pink, orange, red, purple, teal, gold; a very mid-winter quilt if ever there was one.

For some reason my pictures are all rather faded and misty since I got this new hard-drive. Still working on figuring that out, but these photos still give the general idea.

It's Family Day Weekend in Alberta. Premier Getty anointed this day with oil way-back-when, when his son was busted for drugs. A distraction tactic? Who knows. But it's nice to have a holiday in the middle of February, that's for sure. Someone should have thought of that a long time ago.