Here is Lily with Mom and brother Bruce. She is just a few hours old, dressed in her denim blue and ready for life!

Lily's quilt, finished at last, just after her birth! Brother Bruce feels the need to sit on every quilt I lay out on the floor, just taking them for a test drive. This pattern is called By Chance from the Laps From Fats book. I love how the shapes come together. The hard work is to keep it random, we always tend to want to match or adjust when laying out the blocks. The backing fabric is flannel, you can see just a bit on the binding.

I love the colors on this, it reminds me of Maine, deep greens of the pines, blues of sky and blueberries and browns for earth. The dark red? Oh that's our thick red blood it takes to make it through the winter!