Room with a view...

This has been my view for the last couple days... Nines has a bad cold. Kertchoo! (The kid on the couch has been rotating, but they all seem to find that book on medieval history equally fascinating- what's not to like? Swords and plagues and castles...) So I spend spells on the couch... too miserable to read- and that's really miserable. I have been flipping through quilting books, looking at the pictures. And then... I've gained a good bit of pleasure and inspiration from just looking at this quilt on the wall. It was made by my Grandma Jessie and it is in the Spring rotation- I rotate the quilts over the piano. This one is just so light and airy. I love the aquas and the pinks mixed in with that periwinkle blue...Now why don't I make quilts like that? Mine are all earthy and gloomy. OK, maybe not gloomy, but certainly not "airy." I need to branch out a bit, I'm thinking. So I set to "work-" as only a post-nasal dripping, tissue-toting gal can, and tried my hand at one of Hegdehogs little projects...Now where did I put that link? http://lifesaquilt.blogspot.com/ yeah, there it is. She had this little quilty that was so cute- ya might need to scroll down a few posts. It was three little flowerpots with improvisational flowers growing out of them. How cheerful can ya get? I thought this would be a good beginner's project for me. Not too big. Just get my feet wet, so to speak. I am a generally cheerful person, I just am drawn to work with the earthier color palette. Sometimes you need to step outside the box. So I tried, I really did. Only to realize I have a very limited "light and airy" palette- something I need to remedy. Mine isn't as charming as hers, but ya got to admit she has some stellar fabs there. Did the best I could with the few lights that I had- needed to throw in some darker values, 'cause I just didn't have enough lights. Then I needed to throw in some more couch time. I think quilting it up with petals and leaves and maybe a little moss on those flower pots will be fun... only on another day, when bending over and my head rolling off seems less of a possibility!