Still Life with Pears

When you patchwork, finding gifts for your friends for birthdays is a fun time to come up with inspirational quilts. This time was the chance to get inspired by pears, one of my friend's favourite things.

Firstly, I had to track down a pear pattern for a wall hanging. After some googling I came across this impressive pattern, 'Still Life with Pears' from a book called 'Modern Quilts Illustrated'. I estimated the block sizes and the sizing of the pear. After some mis-measuring, it came together in the end and my friend ended up with a sizable wall hanging!

Making sure I had all the blocks

Fun part deciding what pear went where

More options of where to place the blocks

One of the pear detail

Another pear detail

Label pocket

Sweet lil donkey inside

Label writing is on the back of the donkey

My chosen backing, pears of course courtesy of Grandmother's Garden

Final block pattern with pussycat on guard

Done!

Pussy cat minding

You know that moment when you need to plan your quilt and start deciding what fabric should go next, only to have your paw friends come along and announce that yes, this is possibly a good place to settle down for awhile and stop you from progressing any further.

This is the backing of a quilt I am working on, but have yet to quilt...