Cotton candy and lemonade with a splash of marigold: this one is all sunshine, soft pink, buttery yellow, and a deeper goldenrod batik that gives the whole quilt its glow. Big pieced star blocks march across the top in a pinwheel of pink and yellow points, and right in the middle of one of them sits the showstopper, a navy fussy-cut panel of rain-day dogs in coats and umbrellas, tongues out, splashing through puddles. It's the kind of unexpected detail that makes you grin. The quilting fills every open patch with Spilt Paint, loose teardrop and paisley shapes that spread and pool across the surface like drips on a studio floor, no two quite the same, all of them moving. Stitched in Pale Yellow thread that practically vanishes into the lights and just barely whispers across the pinks and golds, so the texture reads more by shadow than by line. A quilt with a wink in its eye.
