April Cornell Poetry Collection Top Finished

The other day I mentioned finding some piecing. I thought I would let it languish for awhile, but I need the space on my design wall for other projects, so I quickly sewed it together. 

April Cornell Poetry Collection donation top
April Cornell Poetry Collection donation top

I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. I had very low expectations and was rewarded with a better than expected outcome.

I was able to use all the pieces I found and only had to add a little bit of some peach Grunge I had laying around. I didn’t have much of it left and it was about the only color that went with these soft muted colors. At Julie’s suggestion I added a small strip of Tilde pink to get a little more length. I didn’t think it went with the April Cornell fabrics, but Julie said it picked up some of the darker pinks in some of the flowers. It is a little big strange looking for a top, but hopefully someone will like it.

April Cornell Poetry Collection donation back
April Cornell Poetry Collection donation back

The back was much harder. I really don’t have fabrics in those soft colors.  I picked some that I thought sort of went with the quilt top. I would have preferred a sage or muted blue. 

Soon it will be off to the Community Quilt team.