A garden waking up in a flutter of scrappy blocks, sixteen flowers in all, each one a different little personality. Buttercream backgrounds let the appliquéd blooms do the singing, daisies, tulips, hearts on stems, pinwheels of petals in faded denim blue, cherry red, buttercup yellow, and the soft pink of a porch geranium. The sashing is a happy jumble of scraps with pieced cornerstones, and that warm caramel "days of the week" print on the borders grounds the whole thing like a kitchen table on a Sunday morning. The quilting wanders across the top in loose, leafy curves, big open petal shapes and softly curling stems that echo the flowers without copying them, stitched in Spearmint thread that lays down as the gentlest mint-green whisper. It disappears into the cream backgrounds and surfaces just enough on the prints to make you lean in closer. A quilt that hums.
