This quilt is a whole afternoon at the lake in fabric form: deep teal water, sandy rust and cinnamon, and pale bands of cream and faded denim blue that read like driftwood bleached in the sun. The pieced top runs in easygoing strips and patches, mixing speckled batik-style prints with tribal-looking motifs and little stitched borders, so your eye wanders happily from one texture to the next with no straight line in a hurry. And then, oh, the quilting. This is the Champagne pattern, and it does exactly what its name promises: big and little bubbles float up all over the surface, circles nesting inside circles, popping and drifting across that great expanse of solid teal like someone tipped the glass and let it fizz. Colonial Gray thread traces every bubble in a soft silver line, quiet on the dark teal and barely-there on the cream. A cheerful, effervescent quilt that never quite sits still.
