In Stitches

Spine Quilt by Meg Callahan

Image via designsponge.com

With only rudimentary sewing machine skills in my kit and a definitive lack of ample blanketry in my home, I am seriously considering making a quilt. Grace stitched a really lovely one for me a few years ago---all pale blues, soft creams, and warm browns. It sits with great pride of place on the back of our couch, protecting the button tufting from Graham's picky fingers. However, I think it's time to expand my collection. I've been saving some real beauties on Pinterest for awhile now, and while I'll probably never turn out something as finely crafted as these, they've given me something to aspire to. 

Color Study 306 by Sherri Lynn Wood

Unfortunately sold on Etsy

Autumn Lady by Loretta Bennett

2008, 87 x 65"

Image via scrapyardfabrication.blogspot.com

Image via designscouting.com

Image via gregkucera.com

Tangerine Ladders by Barbara Perrino

$155 via bperrino on Etsy

- Cathleen 

Quilted Land, Quilted Sky

Soft-Map of NYC by Haptic Lab

Maybe it's because I just spent a freezing cold five hours on an excessively air-conditioned bus back from Syracuse in rain-dampened clothes, but I couldn't stop thinking about the moment I'd be nestled in my own warm bed, wrapped up in a dry blanket. My thoughts also kept coming back to these beautiful quilts I'd seen last week. The Soft-Maps above and below are designed by Haptic Lab in Brooklyn, hand-stitched by certified fair labor partners in India, and will fit any full to king-sized bed. These also remind me a lot of the atlas for the blind post Grace shared last week. Very cool. 

NYC detail

Paris

Washington, DC

Great Lakes Quilt

Now turning our lens from the land to the sky, the next group of stunning intergalactic quilts are hand and machine quilted by the artist Jimmy McBride of Brooklyn, NY. 

M1 V2 (The Crab Nebula) and Detail, 87" x 78"

M64 (The Black Eye Galaxy), 45" x 60"

The Wormhole Docking Station of Sector 6, 86" x 77" 

You can see more examples of Jimmy McBride's work on his website jimmymcbride.com.

Stay cozy, San Diego. 

- Cathleen