All Hallows Garden

quilts

A throw-size quilt hangs on a porch railing in the evening sun. It's made up of 9 large motif blocks set on point as diamonds with small motif blocks between them and out to the brown broder. The large blocks are stars with alternating purple and orange points, like a striped flower. The alternating blocks are green pinwheels with a green border. The effect is a bit like a neatly-planted garden with green separating the flowers.

Years created: 20??-2017
Piecing technique: hand
Quilting technique: hand
Summary: This quilt sat partially-finished for many years, I think between 2012 or 2013 and 2017, when I finished it while living in Indiana. I took the repeating star and pinwheel pattern of the “All Hallows Variation” examples I saw on Quilter’s Cache and asked myself “but what if it were flowers in a garden?” I saw the pinwheels as leaves enclosed by borders of more leaves separating the flowers. Looking at it now, I could also see doing the pinwheels in pink. I finished assembling blocks and border while in Indiana, then quilted it and donated it to the Michiana Relief Sale.

Pattern by Marcia Hohn of Quilter’s Cache.

A closeup which shows that the background color fabric is a tan shade made even more golden by the setting sun. The hand-stitching is “in the ditch” following the outside of the stars, the pinwheels, and the border. The stars also have sitching on one side of each inner seam.

A view of the plain muslin backing while the quilt is still in its hoop. The stitching highlights the eight diamonds that make up the star.

A full back view of the quilt. It has the same alternating star, border, and pinwheel pattern except it’s all a neutral muslin with small stitches. The border is quilted as cross-hatched diamonds.