Vintage Coxcombs Moving on to the Next Phase

This quilt turned out so different from what I expected. Still wrapping my mind around the finished quilt top! I thought it would have a kind of cottagey, romantic feel and instead it keeps reminding me of  those Brach's neapolitan coconut candies we ate as a kid.

Vintage Coxcombs a completed quilt top!

This one was almost left border-less, but it just didn't quite look right. Out came the various colors and fabrics, until finally I settled on the darker green-blue and brown simple sawtooth idea. It works. Absolutely it does, but still, more blue-green in a quilt that was supposed to look soft and dreamy?

Kind of old fashioned looking

I'm really, really happy with the pieced backgrounds in many of the blocks. It seems to give an added layer of interest in a quilt that could easily be dismissed as too sweet to possibly be interesting. Not true at all! And it's a difficult quilt for me to get pictures of, all those light browns and taupe colors reflecting light right back at you or looking moody because it's soaking all the light up. Life's been way to busy to have several photo shoots and so what you see is what you get.

It's so much prettier than the pictures show

I have a feeling this is going to be one of those quilt tops that I fall a little more in love with every time it comes out of the quilt drawers. It's always great fun to pull the completed quilt tops out one by one {oh, I forgot about that one!} and have a little play time deciding which ones get to go in the hoop next!

Lots of work in this quilt!

So happy to get this one to a point where I can check it off the 'in-progress' list and get those extra fabrics back into the stash totes. It's been a long time coming. The funny thing is that I piddled around on it forever because the outcome was surely a 'given'. And now it's completely surprised me in color and the overall feeling it conveys. How does this manage to happen?