“Fabulous Night for a Moon Dance” is done

The machine quilting was so easy and fun on this one. I guess that could be because I just had my machine tuned up a few weeks ago. It was so quiet and so smooth while I was quilting it.
The Moondance song by Van Morrison has been going going though my head since the challenge was issued back in February. I guess I have the lyric wrong since it is supposed to be “a marvelous night for a moondance.”
Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush
  

Quilting the Angelina moon was a little difficult. I quilted it with invisible thread so it was hard to see where I had already quilted so there was some overlap of quilting stitches. Oh well that does not bother me. I quilted the moon with small circles (craters) and the sky with meandering quilting. I only outlined the tree so it would stand out above the rest. One thing I do notice is that my eyesight is definitely not improving with age!
I love all these challenges. They really make me think plus I get to use up fabrics in my stash especially for the backs. Plus I have gotten really good at bindings!
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.
Chris

Fabulous Night for a Moon Dance

I have been working on my challenge quilt for the group that makes the 12 inch by 12 inch quilts. The word this time is LUNACY. As soon as I heard the word the only thing that came to mind was the moon. I guess the astronomy background is coming to the surface again. So I went with it.

I decided to try Angelina for the first time to make a shiny silver-gold moon behind a tree. I decided to outline the tree in gold metallic thread to make it stand out against the dark sky. I love the piece of fabric I found in my stash for the sky. I is dark blue and black with spots of white that look like stars.  Now I just have to quilt it and finish the edges.

The other thing that is on my design wall is a lap quilt that I am making to use up my Christmas fabrics. Unfortunately I still have a lot of them left! This did not photograph very well in terms of color. Some of the fabrics are off whites, but mostly they are white.

Thanks for reading.

Chris