Celia's Raven
2015
43 x 46
Inspired by The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Celia's Raven is done over 6 months early! I am so excited about that. No more sweating the summer over a book quilt. Anyway, I love how the raven came out though it's hard to see the stitching unless you are in the right light.
I chose to keep the machine quilting fairly simple. I added some lines of stitch to represent the face, but didn't try to add anything for an eye, for instance.
The other quilting really doesn't show too much with so much pattern going on. 
The back is also simple, but I followed my rule about making the back fun and indicative of what's on the front. I bought that circus tent fabric just especially for the back of this quilt and I was pleasantly surprised to find the raven fabric in the stash.
I don't normally show my labels, but I did here because I wanted to show the book quote that inspired this quilt. "In the blink of an eye folds of silk are glossy black feathers, and it is impossible to pinpoint the moment when it is fully raven and no longer cloth".