The next quilt that I'm not making

My Mom has 2 sisters and each of them had one daughter. Then my Mother decided to overachieve and add 3 boys to the mix. But that's another story for another day. Of the 3 cousins, I'm the middle one and I'm fortunate to live in the same city as my oldest cousin. The youngest lives in Florida as we don't get to see her often. But Debra and I have lunch each month. Since neither or our mothers are very gossipy we use that time to try to put together any tidbits of information that we've heard into some sort of logical narrative about family happenings. Lately, though, we are mostly talking about wedding plans for her son, Clay.

Mom and I decided that we would make Clay and Lydia a quilt for their wedding gift and, as with tradition, it will not be done by their wedding in May. We'll shoot for the Fall when they will be working in Virginia. 

Lydia likes the colors of iris and this is the color palette that I came up with for the quilt. This is very ironic because Clay's Great-Grandmother LOVED iris and had an iris flower bed that was about 20 feet long and 4 foot deep. She would have loved these colors too.

Clay and Lydia are performers. He's a drummer and she's a dancer so they will be spending their time traveling all over the country living a nomadic life for a while. We do not want to make them a quilt that's "special" and required special care. We really want to make them a "blanket". So I designed a very simple pattern made up of 6" half square triangles. I picked 6" as the block size because I have the GO! die for the 6" HST. We'll let the fabrics do all of the heavy lifting in this quilt. The wide lavender border in the pattern will be the gradient.

It only took about 2 hours to starch and cut all of the fabric. I packed it all up and it should arrive in Mom's mailbox today for sewing. When she's done I'll dye a quilt back and quickly quilt with a very light custom treatment like continuous curves. 

While Mom's sewing the top together I can play with these .