Vanilla Beauty

Created for QQ2020 Q.5 Trish challenge.

I met Trish when I joined the Lodi Valley Quilters Guild. She and my daughter-in-law, Kim, discovered very quickly that they were meant to be quilt sisters. So, when a group of friends got together to sew in Poymette, Kim and Trish joined us. This must have been early in 2013. At that time, I was teaching every November at the Quilts by Barb Quilt Retreat Getaway Weekend run by my sister, Barb Raisbeck, and our project for 2013 was the Squarey Quilt.

 Trish was working on her Vanilla Quilt that day. As she was laying it out on the floor, I thought, "Hmmmm, that's a Squarey Quilt." I know I took a picture of it, but it must have been lost when my old computer bit the dust. Trish's quilt was made with rectangles instead of squares, but definitely the same idea. So, I decided to make a vanilla quilt for this challenge. This is definitely out of my wheelhouse. I'm into lots of color and lots of fabrics. But a vanilla quilt is made of vanilla fabrics. And it needed to be a New York Beauty because that's what I'm doing right now. So, I put in as many different fabrics as I could find a place for and added one chocolate fabric because Trish did in hers. I would have put it closeer to the center, but I forgot until I was almost done. Oh, well.

This will go to my daughter-in-law, Kim, for her master bedroom even if it was made in honor of Trish.

Created by Diane Lapacek, while looking forward to getting her real life back after quarantining in rural Poynette, WI.
4 1/2" square.

Happy Birthday, Trish!!!