Introducing Merricks Nth

This beautiful quilt, Merricks Nth (North), appeared on the website of my favorite Australian quilt shop this morning. Here I am, two months into Pick A Petal, and I'm swooning over what could possibly my most intricate project ever.

Emma designed this quilt to commemorate the place where she used to live and where her fabric shop was first imagined. 

Merricks Nth is Treehouse's latest block of the month, set to begin in just a couple of weeks. It is available either as pdf patterns or as printed patterns with fabrics. Over the twelve months of the program, the price difference is noticeable.

Emma said that her color inspiration came from this Liberty fabric, Dreams of Summer, bits and pieces of which can be found (by enlarging the photo considerably!) here and there in the quilt. Blues, greens, and pinks abound.

Initially, early this morning, I was planning to subscribe to the whole patterns-plus-fabric program. That's how smitten I was. After breakfast, however, I found myself in on-line conversation with my buddy Kathleen in Northwestern Canada, and neither of us was surprised that the other was interested in this project. And as the morning progressed, between laundry loads and other less enticing activities, we may have talked a bit of sense into each other.

It dawned on me that, really, I'd like the quilt a little better if all of the lattice strips were from the same blue. And, also really, that although the color (colour?) scheme is very, very nice, I'm a bit more of a purplish kind of person rather than pink (and Kath was thinking orange!). Back and forth we went, sharing favorite on-line shops and links and fabric possibilities. What a way to spend a morning!

By lunchtime it was all resolved, and as of now, we've both registered for the pdf version of the BOM and picked out our inspiration fabrics. Mine is this Liberty print, Nell Annie and May (not only without Oxford comma but without any comma whatsoever).

You'll want to enlarge to see its full beautiferousness. I'll dig through stash, visit sister's stash, trek down to LQS to find coordinates in periwinkle, gold, pinkish, green, and rose. I figure I can justify the purchase of a bunch of new FQs because I'm only subscribing to the PDF and not the full fabric-included version. I'm certain you'll agree that makes perfect sense.

The variety of techniques to be used in Merricks Nth (Nth as an abbreviation for North is new to me) is daunting, but I had that same feeling at the beginning of Bessie and it all worked out.

The first installment will arrive in my mailbox in just a few weeks, perhaps a month. Between Merricks and Petal, I'm going to be busy for the next several months. How wonderful!

I expect you're wondering what Ms. Orange Kathleen settled on. It's this one, by Art Gallery. I love it, too.