Quilts at the Library of Congress

The amazing Library of Congress archive has a wonderful called Quilts and Quiltmaking in America . Here are just a few of the amazing photos.

Quilt top ready to go

I finished this one a while ago now (and took a crappy photo with photo booth!) and I think I am just about ready to turn it into an actual quilt! still thinking about the backing fabric. I think maybe just one colour...

Mingle by Monaluna

I have been thinking about how to get some slightly more random fabrics in terms of colour, dots and stripes without yet going to the extent of dyeing them myself. Some of the kind of 'patchy' solids look a bit heavy handed to me although it may be less so when used in small quantities. I do really like the look of this dots fabric from Robert Kaufman. It seems quite Japanese and would really well for a lot of different projects.