This quilt is for the new brother of twins Eloise and Wesley.
The request was for an owl, in sage and olive green. I found this pattern at Bound Shop. We really liked how the owl popped on the muted background.
The pattern, as written, provided the actual fabric colors from the Bella Solid line by Moda. But for the owl itself, these were in two shades of blue (plus Maize, Bronze, and Coffee). So it was easy enough to go find excellent substitutes of celadon and celery from the same line.
We replaced the solid gray and cream fabrics in the background with ones of tiny white dots on white and green dots on cream.
I did free-motion quilting in the darker green areas to simulate feathers. Also did free-motion on the face in gray. Then some angled straight line quilting in the orange areas. Different feather pattern? Whoooo knows. Finally, I ditch quilted with white on all the horizontal lines in the background.
And whoooooo's it for? Baby Thomas!
