Neeeeext!

This is the next thing on my Next Four list. I'm sneaking something else in, too, but it's little-ish, so it doesn't need more fanfare.

I bought this top on eBay for $8 I think. It's sizeable - 4x5 feet at least, but not big enough. I love the look from a distance, up close not so much. My plan, I think, is to make more blocks, in the same configuration, but with more saturated colours, and a dark *something* where the muslin is in the original feedsack blocks. Once it's assembled, I'm going to take the "how to" class on the HQ16 at Thread Connections and this will be my first finish.

To purists, it's probably sacrilegious of me to add new bold fabrics, not even repros to a true feedsack top, and then to quilt it on a mid-arm machine, but phtth. I think finishing it in ANY manner is very much in keeping with the spirit of feedsack quilts. Better it gets used somehow than it falls to pieces in my cabinet downstairs.