Bright… Cheerful …Hopeful …Optimistic Promising….

Words I think of when I look at these colours.

A quilt inspired by my friend Kate. She is the one who gave me the courage to get started and keeps encouraging me each and every time.

Her latest quilt “Twilight” has stars in my eyes and following her latest blog I thought it would be a wonderful way to tutor myself into making a similar one for myself.

Now believe me I am her ardent follower but by no means am I even close to her level of skill and expertise….

I started with the same window blocks but added another row. I have followed the patterns as best I can seeing as I have limited colours to work with.

I’ve planned this quilt the two jelly rolls I picked up at half price from spotlight… I had left over squares in blue from a previous project and it seems like it’s worked.

I’ve enjoyed making the blocks and putting them together… I’ve used a simple QAYG method and it seems to have worked ….

The border is in blue as I’ve run out of the pinkish colours in the jelly roll. The blue seems to bring out the pink in the quilt so I’m happy…

Without further ado I present ….

The colours are bright and beautiful and pretty 😍

All aspects of Colbinabbin and it’s colourful history incorporated into one a massive six-silos-wide incredible masterpiece.

Colbinabbin is a small rural farming township nestled in Shiraz grape growing country, between Bendigo, Shepparton and Echuca.

In 2019 the community were successful in their funding bid to paint all six silos running adjacent to the main street. Renowned mural artist Tim Bowtell spent almost three months painting; featuring Colbo’s Farmers Picnic on the Hill (late 1800s), train and railway station, ‘Lulu’ the fire trucks, the much loved and utilised recreation reserve and the Colbo tractor pull (late 1980s).

And as always the sun comes out for me 😍

By far the most colourful Silo Art I’ve seen so far .

As always worth every minute!