Boston Molasses Flood

As promised, here is the alternate color way for Isaac's Storm, called Boston Molasses Flood.  (Actually, BMF came first, but it's still being quilted.  Yay for hand quilting?)  This is an up close and slightly wonky shot of the quilting - since it's all about the Boston Molasses Flood (ew!) that sent a wave of molasses through parts of Boston in 1929 (If I remember correctly).  It may have happened in January, but the wave moved fast and struck hard. 

Other than that, it's Monday.  Which means work.  I have a migraine and really want to be at home sound asleep, medicated... but not today.  Too much work to do!  Maybe I can leave early... I hope.  If not, so be it!

Thursday on the Anvil

Yesterday I promised pictures, so here they are!

This is Isaac's Storm - so named after the Galveston, TX hurricane of 1900 that killed approximately 10,000 people.  Yes.  10,000.  It's a matter of chaos, really... no one had ever encountered a hurricane quite like that one, and it was considered to be just another storm.  Obviously, it was not.

The title of the quilt comes from the book of the same name about the hurricane.  It's a good read, if disturbing, and I highly recommend it. 

There will be a pattern of this one for sale - along with another colorway or three....  :)  We're getting all the pesky details finalized right now.

Here is Texas Daycare.  Moo!  A little longhorn in his field, keeping company with the tree and the prickly pear.  To me, this is a good part of Texas, despite the fact that I grew up in San Antonio, where the nearest longhorns were a ways north in the Hill Country.  His pattern, too, is almost complete. 

Texas Daycare will be the first in the Texas series of quilts.  Mind, none of them are flag-waving, look-it's-the-Alamo, God-bless-Texas kinds of quilts.  They are each an aspect of Texas, a special small slice that covers PART of the Lone Star State.

Sugar Skulls is going to be second in that series, and it's to that end that I am working so hard to get all the skulls cut out and pieced back together. 




So there's the newest designs on the anvil.  For a Thursday update, not too shabby!

We are starting a new series of quilts - all based on the same pattern pieces, so they could be considered colorways... but the two we have so far that are tone on tone are based on disasters that happened in the early 1900's in the United States.  The first is the Boston Molasses Flood, and the second is Isaac's Storm, based on the hurricane that struck Galveston, TX. 

More info and pictures will be forthcoming... the Boston Molasses Flood quilt is on the rack right now for quilting. 

The part of quilting that I seem to struggle with most is the border... what do I quilt there?  For BMF, it's taken me until now to figure that part out.  Isaac's Storm was easier... more on that one soon!  I've got the fabrics pulled, even the border and backing.  Just have to get BMF finished and start on Isaac's Storm. 

There may be another disaster quilt in the future, maybe the Chicago Fire?  Blacks, oranges, reds and yellows?  Hmm... may have to think on that.... hmm....  I think I know what the border quilting would be, too.... I think I may have to run with this one, too!

Anyway, back to the anvil! 
Shay