Sonata for Bee

 Okay friends, this one was a finish in 2021 that I hadn't shared here yet! To really get the story started, we go back to 2016 (!) when I took a Double Wedding Ring class with Victoria Findlay Wolfe. It was a fantastic class - Victoria is an excellent, energetic teacher and really helped all of us experiment and play with our fabric choices.

For this quilt I decided to use my stash of music themed fabrics that I had been finding over the years. So even with a wide mix of colors and styles - they all ended up blending well all together. By the end of class I had most of the top pieced, and then finished it up at home that week.

From there, it sat in the to-be-quilted pile until I finally got it basted and under the needle summer of 2021. The backing is pieced with some of the bigger leftover pieces of music fabrics to continue the theme, and it's bound with a yellow-gold Grunge.

I free motion quilted music notes- quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and treble clefs- across the quilt in a blue Aurifil thread.⁣ This was a challenge that I enjoyed figuring out to make the notes flow into and out of each other throughout the quilt.

It's called 'Sonata for Bee' and hung in an exhibit of staff-made/owned quilts at the Quilt Museum in fall of 2021! Super exciting to have it completed & exhibited!