hydrangea quilt finished

I am continuing to successfully work my way through the stack of quilts! I started this quilt in May of this year. I had recently finished my Kodachrome quilt and felt like getting one of my wips done was a great reason to start another. (Ha!) A stash dive unearthed a charm pack of batiks in gorgeous purples, magentas and teals as well as a large cut of a peachy solid I could use for the background. Having recently seen a Jacob's ladder tutorial on Missouri Star's YouTube channel, I decided to give it a go. The middles of half of the blocks are a purple floral flannel I had leftover from my huge purple and turquoise quilt top (another one that's in the stack to be quilted!). Sitting in the evenings trimming half square triangles and chain piecing all of these blocks was very meditative and relaxing, and I finished the top in June. 

Now for the quilting. I chose to do horizontal lines in a set of colors that ranged from light blue to magenta to purple as you progress across the quilt. It isn't incredibly noticeable unless you are sitting with it, but I like that detail. It is backed with a beautiful floral print I had in my stash and bound with a purple I went out to get at the shop here in town. I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I'm calling it Hydrangea because, well, just look at the way my hydrangea turned out this summer. It's gorgeous and has just about all of the shades in this quilt. The jacaranda bloom in the second photo is quite nice too!