Orcas Ferry Landing Quilt

My latest quilt is called Home on the Late Boat, and depicts the Orcas ferry landing at night.  This is a small quilt, so it didn't take me half a lifetime to piece or stitch.  It will be one of the quilts in my show at the Orcas Center.  The builting is a little lopsided, but I like the light shining down on the Orcas sign.

I painted a piece of white Kona cotton with Intense color sticks to make the piece of light fabric under the letters.  I wanted that pool of yellow light that spread out to a cooler white, and couldn't get it by piecing fabric.  

The Deer Harbor Post Office Quilt

At long last, the Deer Harbor Post Office Quilt is finished.  The top stitching on this took as long or longer than the piecing.  Every time I make a quilt this large (41"x54") on my Bernina sewing machine, I swear it will be the last.  Wrestling a large quilt under the needle of a domestic sewing machine, even a relatively large domestic machine, is a physical challenge!

I'm fairly happy with this, though the porch light is too bright, and bugging me.  If I have the courage, I'll take some paint (Derwent Inktense sticks)  to it, and tone it down.