My friend Renee invited me to Silver City for our first mommy's weekend getaway. Our first weekend without children! Awesome! We stayed at an amazing bed & breakfast called the Bear Mountain Lodge. Our room was titled the Georgia O'Keefe room. It was nice, cozy and spacious. The bathroom was large (the pipes smelled old, not that I go around smelling pipes, but I could smell the 'old' from my bed. Yuck.....) anyway, it had quite a beautiful tile job. From my husbands eye, I could see how tedious and awful it would have been to lay all this tiny tile down, ALL OVER that large bathroom. I felt for the guy that had to do it, and several times noticed his flaws. He did a great job, in no way am I saying I could compare. The pattern of the 'floating squares' was all over. On three of the four walls and the floor, surrounded by white tile. I liked the look of them just being suspended in this mass pallet of white. My quilt turned out nothing like this, but it is lovely all the same.
The tile was inspiring. I really loved that
Bed and Breakfast.
Here
are my scribbles and notes for the quilt. Now that I am done with it,
even to me they are nonsense and look like giberish.
I was not real pleased with this portion. I like it, but it was not what I had hoped/expected. I think I should have stuck with a little more bold colors, solid blacks and whites. Though I was afraid 'real' white would be too white for Kai. I may have to revise the "tile" pattern and try a again for a more satisfying top.
SO BIG! It was quite intimidating to think of putting this in my sewing machine!
