Summer Cabin Triangles

In 2017, I worked hard on destashing my fabric.  I made quite a few quilts that were just excuses to use fun colors together.  This couch quilt was exactly that: a study in fun summery colors, just for fun.

I showed this quilt to my friend at work and she loved it so much that I gave it to her.  It made me happy to see it go to a good home.

Earlier in the year, she and I spent a weekend up on the north shore, taking a class together at the North House Folk School.  This quilt reminds me of the ceiling in the cabin we rented.

The folk school was such a wonderful place, filled with creative and generous people.  The idea of the folk school...a place where people can come to learn traditional crafts, to work with their hands, and make beautiful things alongside people who share the same interests, or at least share the curiosity of learning new things...is the feeling of coming home, of reuniting with kindred spirits.

One evening we all gathered around the brick pizza oven and made our own woodfire pizzas.  The next morning, someone made cinnamon rolls with the leftover dough and we milled about the lazy morning campfire eating and drinking coffee and chatting on our break from class.

I hope to go back someday, to take another class and enjoy the campus and the beautiful North shore again.  But until then, I will remember my time there fondly.