I have had the idea for this quilt for at least a year and a half.  I shelved it last fall due to other projects, but, this fall, it told me it had to be made!  Luckily, it is a pretty small project – it finishes at about 25″ x 30″.

I had several quilting ideas including a zig zag design that I thought would look like the leaves floating to the ground.  I drew a couple of chalk lines in and it just made the whole thing look frenetic!  So I decided on straight lines.  After seeing BooDilly’s latest work on Flickr, I decided to do many of them in variegated thread.  My adaptation doesn’t have nearly the depth of her work, but I’m pleased with the result all the same.