speaking of bartering

[mmegaera]

The quilt I'm making for my friend the computer geek (it really is a more fair trade than people seem to think) is another Warm Wishes quilt (http://tinyurl.com/nggu8). Only I hand-dyed a color wheel for it. Muted, not bright -- it shades from yellow at one corner through orange, red, purple, and blue to green at the other, twelve gradations in all. The striped blocks are a muted black pattern, and white. It looks very graphic (I finished cutting and sewing the blocks on Wednesday) up on my design wall. But it shouldn't take me long to put it together, considering that it only took me about three weeks to finish the baby quilt in the same pattern.

I'd never dyed a whole color wheel at once before. That was *fun.* I'm glad she gave me the excuse to do it [g].