In college, we had a friend who used to joke about names for rock bands. One he liked was Babies in Neutral, because babies are never in neutral. Sewing is not a neutral experience either – but using neutrals alone makes for a quiet kind of quilting. 

I made a pieced quilt (that I can't show you) in wild colors and big prints for the color book. The pattern was so fast, so easy, and so much fun to make that I decided to make a smaller version in neutrals to show with the colorful quilt. The two quilts are very different in demeanor – one is fun, the other is more refined. I wish I had time to make this one pattern up in many more colorways.

Below are two of the accent fabrics that I used in the quilt. As it turns out, the one I liked the most, the top fabric, didn't work at all. I realized that after I had sewn all of the pieces into place. Luckily I was able to replace them in a couple of hours. That sort of thing happens to experienced quilters, too, just so you know :-).

(I wrote this post on the way home from Austin. I'll show more of the kitchen soon.)