Thursday, December 27, 2007

Four Seasons Swap for Winter


Now that the holidays are pretty much over and done, I can focus on the Four Seasons Quilt Swap for Winter. I've had time to look over the blog of my recipient and have come to a design decision.

I won't say much about the recipient, but I've chosen a non-holiday winter theme that reflects the place where I grew up--the San Joaquin Valley of California. Visalia and the surrounding area is a renowned agricultural area and citrus is among its diverse crops. Winter is the time when all citrus in the valley both ripens and is most vulnerable to freezes. The oranges (and grapefruits, and lemons) require a certain degree of cold weather to ripen and sweeten, but can be devastated if subjected to sub-zero temperatures for more than a few hours.

I used my favorite program, http://www.electricquilt.com/ to design the quilt and the block is from EQ's "Folk Art Classic Applique." I now have the central block bonded down for the applique and that's a good start.

5 comments:

Juliann in WA said...

This is going to be a lovely quilt.

Donna said...

love the shape of this plant you've created for the applique

floribunda said...

very pretty, Jan -- this reminds me that I need to be working on my quilt, too! My orange tree produces a big crop every other year -- this is an "off" year, unfortunately, but we will get a couple of of big ones.

Bea said...

Great design. I love applique - smile!
Happy New Year!
Bea/Germany

Jeanne said...

Your design is great and I'm sure the quilt will be wonderful. I've just started on mine, too.