Too Pretty to Cut!

When I was in England teaching at the Birmingham quilt festival I did a little shopping.  I found this print featuring stacks of books and couldn’t resist it.  It was a slightly heavier 100% cotton print and I purchased 1.5 yards.  I decided to make it into a large wallhanging by adding a pieced border on the top and bottom.  Since the books are stacked both horizontally and vertically, it reminded me of a Log Cabin block.  My long arm quilter, Linda Bang of Red Wing, MN, cleverly did free motion quilting outlining the books scattered across the print plus she did curlicues in the brown solid borders and rainbow variegated thread in the colored border pieces.  I recently had to do several ZOOM meetings and I hung this quilt behind my computer station to give a scholarly backdrop!