Modern Fall Quilt • Moda Lissa

kennedy modeling my newest quilt

Can you modernize Halloween or possibly the

celebration of Thanksgiving? Both Holidays are certainly the beginning

of the fall holiday season in the United States,

but neither holiday would be considered modern.
I love the season,
I love the colors
and I love the weather
during this time of year

AND
I was inspired to sew.
I didn’t know what project but I had a color palette in mind.

So I was looking back through my notebook of project sheets.
I have always
loved

the Wee Woodland pattern so I choose some “fall colors”,

grabbed
some candy corn and peanuts,

threw them in a bowl for a sewing snack and started

yet
another project.

The working title for this quilt was Modern Fall. It was my excuse

to get to sew with

orange, grey, magenta and greens and a

natural grey pindot background

without having to worry

about the fabrics matching my house.

Whoa, wait a minute, did I give you the impression that

anything in my house matches?

It doesn’t, eclectic to say the least.

My kids are kind of tired of helping me hold up quilts for pictures,

so I solicited some help from my niece, Kennedy.

She is interested in photography, so I held the quilts

and she took the pictures. We have pictures from all different angles.

There is something about clicking that shutter button multiple times so it

sounds like a professional photographer.

I think that only applies to fashion photography not quilts.

click, click, click

I think it was a test to see how long I could hold my

arms straight up over my head holding the quilt.

Close up of quilting shown on Natalia’s site.

Enough with the quilt pictures.

My arms were tired.

It was time to change places,
I was behind the camera and she was in front.

This quilt is easy and fun to make using an assortment of 10″ squares. Pattern info here.

My other niece Avery came home and helped “model” some
of the other quilts to

be shown in future posts.
Thank goodness they still like to help Aunt Izzy.