A Cabin quilt that looks like it was pulled straight off a porch swing in late October: deep burgundy, ink navy, rust orange, mustard, forest green, and shadowed black, all cooled by the soft tea-stained creams that keep the palette breathing. The piecing is a scrappy four-patch and single-square mosaic of reproduction prints, ditsy florals and sprigs and small-scale geometrics in the style of mid-1800s shirtings and indigos, with one printed panel of pine trees set into the top like a little window onto the woods. The quilting carries that woodland feeling straight across the surface: Falling Leaves, an edge-to-edge of curving leaf motifs and gentle swirls that drift over the patchwork the way real leaves drift over a yard in autumn, softening all those crisp little squares with their fluid lines. Colonial gray thread settles quietly into the prints, just visible enough on the darker patches to trace each leaf without ever stealing the show. A warm, lived-in quilt that wants to be wrapped around shoulders.
