Hanover Country Life Quilt
I spend a month each summer in Maine and I try to have a piecing project for the trip. I do as much prep ahead of time as I can so that I can spend the month sewing. This is the project that I started in Maine in 2024. I cut out all of the fabrics ahead of time and got the blocks pieced on vacation. I worked on it off and on after vacation and finished it in January 2025. This quilt was made for the Montpelier Center for the Arts and Education to use as their 2025 raffle quilt.
The pattern is Fab Farm by Elizabeth Hartman.
The pattern is Fab Farm by Elizabeth Hartman.
The fabrics are all hand dyed and it was fun pulling different textured fabrics for the animals. The quilt is pieced in quadrants with 9 blocks in each. You can click on these to see them close up.
Here are each of the block groups together so you can see the fabric choices for each animal. The bees are the only blocks that were made identical.
The back is a gradient pattern that I used to sell called Frolic. It's quilted with a pantograph called Macrame.